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Episode 121: Therac-25

Well There‘s Your Problem

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The New X-Ray Target

There are three main components to this and they rotate back and forth around a central axis. You've got the New X-ray target, which is a conical piece of tungsten. The ion chamber measures the ionization levels in the air as the therapy beam or the x-rays exit. And then there's an electron mode, which is sort of scat surrounded by the scanning magnets. They call these things wigglers - I'm so pleased that that's what they call them.

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