Therac-25 is a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20...
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Hospital was the site of two incidents, wherein hospital staff used a Therac-25 machine to treat cancer patients. Due to a coding error in the machine...
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crash landing that disintegrated it. A bug in the code controlling the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine was directly responsible for at least five patient...
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crashing). Software bugs have been linked to disasters. Software bugs in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine were directly responsible for patient deaths...
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May, 1984. Between 1985 and 1987, a series of design flaws in AECL's Therac-25 medical accelerator caused massive overdoses of radiation on 6 different...
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security Radioactive scrap metal 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident Therac-25 "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation: 2008 UNSCEAR Report" (PDF)...
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orphan source incidents 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident Therac-25 Blakeslee, Sandra (May 1, 1984). "Nuclear Spill At Juarez Looms As One...
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doses of radiation to patients. The most famous of these failures are the Therac-25 incidents. Peter G. Neumann has kept a contemporary list of software problems...
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systems can be disastrous. Race conditions were among the flaws in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, which led to the death of at least three patients...
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should have received therapy at 7 MeV were instead treated at 40 MeV. Therac-25 Ionizing radiation List of civilian radiation accidents Radioactive scrap...
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Fabio, Adam (October 26, 2015). "Killed By A Machine: The Therac-25". Hackday. Retrieved 25 April 2021. Shum, Edward Y. "Accidental Release of UF6 at...
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and hence overflows. Between 1985 and 1987, arithmetic overflow in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machines, along with a lack of hardware safety controls...
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UK share settlement system and dematerialized central share depository Therac-25 — A radiation therapy machine responsible for six overdoses due to faulty...
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Display System at RAF West Drayton.[citation needed] The software for the Therac-25 medical linear particle accelerator also ran on a 32K PDP 11/23. In 2013...
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see for example Boeing 737 case or Unintended acceleration cases or Therac-25 cases. This resulted in requirements for the development of some types...
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avoidance of midair collisions between aircraft and problems with the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. Leveson has been editor of the journal IEEE...
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software. The precipitant for change was a radiation therapy device (Therac-25) that overdosed patients because of software coding errors. FDA is now...
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the potential risks in the design of products. The most notable is the Therac-25 incident. Here, the software for a large radiotherapy device was poorly...
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War II, while computer-controlled radiation therapy machines such as Therac-25 played a major part in radiotherapy accidents. The latter of the two is...
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classification for non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Atomic Energy of Canada creates Therac-25, a radiation treatment for cancer patients to remove tumors; however the...
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result in large losses of capital but more importantly lives such as the Therac-25 system, many ethical codes have been developed by a number of societies...
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magnetic motor. The X-rays may also be used to kill cancerous tissue. The Therac-25 machine is an infamous example of this. Electron Beam Applications Archived...
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worker who along with seven members of his family died. 1985 to 1987 – The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited...
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and radiation accidents and incidents Samut Prakan radiation accident Therac-25 The Radiological accident in Goiânia (PDF). Vienna: International Atomic...
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Shuttle Columbia disaster (2003) Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (1986) Therac-25 accidents (1985 to 1987) Chernobyl disaster (1986) Bhopal disaster (1984)...
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setting Xbox Gamerscore records Ray Cox (died 1986), a victim of the Therac-25 malfunctions in the mid-1980s This disambiguation page lists articles...
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Effects Related articles 1985 Chazhma Bay nuclear accident 1985–1987 Therac-25 accident 1982 Andreev Bay nuclear accident 1980 Kramatorsk radiological...
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Adam Fabio: Killed By A Machine: The Therac-25. Hackaday. Retrieved January 18, 2018. Troy Gallagher: THERAC-25 – Computerized Radiation Therapy. Web...
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therapy. Effective radiated power Radiation poisoning Radiation protection Therac-25 ARRL: RF Exposure Regulations News Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback...
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functionality, and especially clinical safety. Take for example the Therac-25, a radiation medical device involved in accidents in which patients were...
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