Often cited as the world’s first lethal software bug, at least three people died between 1985 and 1987, after receiving doses of radiation that were 100x too powerful.
Calibration? Performance validation? Like “the tube should behave like this and that if you push immediately thought many watts through it, so let’s do it within half an hour instead of having it emit low doses for half a week so we can use it again more quickly”. I dunno, I don’t build x-ray machines, but I think there may be use cases for machines to run outside regular parameters during edge case testing.
If it’s outputting lethal doses in the test run surely it’s failed the test!?!
If you want to test the x-ray tube you might want to run it at levels not used during regular operations.
For what purpose? What are you testing about it?
Calibration? Performance validation? Like “the tube should behave like this and that if you push immediately thought many watts through it, so let’s do it within half an hour instead of having it emit low doses for half a week so we can use it again more quickly”. I dunno, I don’t build x-ray machines, but I think there may be use cases for machines to run outside regular parameters during edge case testing.
If you don’t know what the use case would even be why are you insisting a murder the patient mode should be included?
Confidence!