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Therac-25
The Therac-25 machine was a state-of-the-art linear accelerator develope: Energy Canada Limited (AECL) and a French company CGR to provide ra patients. The Therac-25 was the most computerized and sophisticated rac its time. With the aid of an onboard computer, the device could select mul positions and select the type/strength of the energy selected by the opera eleven Therac-25 machines that were used in the United States and Cana
Unfortunately, six accidents involving significant overdoses of radiation to occurred between 1985 and 1987 (Leveson & Turner 1993). Patients repor machine"which some technicians reported, but the company thought was