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...

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...

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...

the problem actually exacerbated it. A bug in the code controlling the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine was directly responsible for at least five patient...

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...

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...

security Radioactive scrap metal 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident Therac-25 "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation: 2008 UNSCEAR Report" (PDF)...

orphan source incidents 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident Therac-25 Blakeslee, Sandra (May 1, 1984). "Nuclear Spill At Juarez Looms As One...

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...

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...

should have received therapy at 7 MeV were instead treated at 40 MeV. Therac-25 Ionizing radiation List of civilian radiation accidents Radioactive scrap...

and hence overflows. Between 1985 and 1987, arithmetic overflow in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machines, along with a lack of hardware safety controls...

see for example Boeing 737 case or Unintended acceleration cases or Therac-25 cases. This resulted in requirements for the development of some types...

classification for non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Atomic Energy of Canada creates Therac-25, a radiation treatment for cancer patients to remove tumors; however the...

avoidance of midair collisions between aircraft and problems with the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. Leveson has been editor of the journal IEEE...

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...

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...

software. The precipitant for change was a radiation therapy device (Therac-25) that overdosed patients because of software coding errors. FDA is now...

UK share settlement system and dematerialized central share depository Therac-25 — A radiation therapy machine responsible for six overdoses due to faulty...

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...

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...

and radiation accidents and incidents Samut Prakan radiation accident Therac-25 The Radiological accident in Goiânia (PDF). Vienna: International Atomic...

Adam Fabio: Killed By A Machine: The Therac-25. Hackaday. Retrieved January 18, 2018. Troy Gallagher: THERAC-25 – Computerized Radiation Therapy. Web...

therapy. Effective radiated power Radiation poisoning Radiation protection Therac-25 ARRL: RF Exposure Regulations News Archived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback...

that may be difficult for the programmer to re-create. One cause of the Therac-25 radiation machine deaths was a bug (specifically, a race condition) that...

functionality, and especially clinical safety. Take for example the Therac-25, a radiation medical device involved in accidents in which patients were...

Effects Related articles 1985 Chazhma Bay nuclear accident 1985–1987 Therac-25 accident 1982 Andreev Bay nuclear accident 1980 Kramatorsk radiological...

mistakes do occasionally occur; for example, the radiation therapy machine Therac-25 was responsible for at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, where...

Rock uranium mill spill (1979), Soviet submarine K-431 accident (1985), Therac-25 accidents (1985–1987), Goiânia accident (1987), Zaragoza radiotherapy...

Shuttle Columbia disaster (2003) Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (1986) Therac-25 accidents (1985 to 1987) Chernobyl disaster (1986) Bhopal disaster (1984)...