
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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X-Ray Therapy for Cancers
The majority of the accelerated sort of imaging work is in taking x-rays for, you know, to get a chest tick or something. With an electron beam, you can actually target the depth at which you want this thing to, to hit. The bad and naughty electrons get put in the electron wiggler that wiggles the beam around and it and over. Next slide: We've now gone from basic biology to basic atomic physics. I don't know if post happens. Oh, an image post definitely happens because Devon puts Devon in, in the podcast sometime.
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