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the staff at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto had decided to... measure all doses of radiation in the beam and, in a fraction of a second, stop excessive d
by tantalor 7y ago
the staff at Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto had decided to... measure all doses of radiation in the beam and, in a fraction of a second, stop excessive doses before they could reach the patient
Astonishing this basic safety precaution was not already in use. Do modern devices do this?
I guess nobody thought about Murphy's Law.
- randlet 7y agoModern linear accelerators (linacs) all have an ion chamber in the beam line (2 actually I think) to measure the instantaneous output of the machine.