radiation absorbed dose
11Radiation therapy — Radiation (medicine) redirects here. It is not to be confused with Radiation (pain) or Radiology. Radiation therapy Intervention ICD 10 PCS D ICD 9 CM …
12Radiation hardening — is a method of designing and testing electronic components and systems to make them resistant to damage or malfunctions caused by ionizing radiation (particle radiation and high energy electromagnetic radiation),[1] such as would be encountered… …
13Dose area product — (DAP) is a quantity used in assessing the radiation risk from diagnostic X rays examination and interventional procedures. It reflects not only the dose within the radiation field but also the area of tissue irradiated. Therefore, it may be a… …
14Dose — means quantity in the following fields: In nutrition, medicine, and toxicology: Dose (biochemistry), the quantity of something that may be eaten by or administered to an organism, or that an organism may be exposed to Medicine and toxicology… …
15radiation — radiational, adj. /ray dee ay sheuhn/, n. 1. Physics. a. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. b. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and… …
16radiation dose — The total amount of ionizing radiation absorbed by material or tissues, expressed in centigrays. (DOD only) The term radiation dose is often used in the sense of the exposure dose expressed in roentgens, which is a measure of the total amount of… …
17Ionizing radiation units — Radiation Measurement Units International System (SI) Activity of an isotope or material conventional unit: 1 curie = 37 billion disintegrations per second. SI unit: 1 becquerel = 1 disintegration per secondconversions1 curie (Ci) = 37… …
18Dose fractionation — Experiments in radiation biology have found that as the absorbed dose of radiation increases, the number of cells which survive decreases. They have also found that if the radiation is fractionated into smaller doses, with one or more rest… …
19Dose, absorbed — In radiology, the absorbed dose is the amount of energy that is deposited in any material by ionizing radiation. The unit of absorbed dose, the rad, is a measure of energy absorbed per gram of material. An alternative unit of absorbed dose is the …
20dose equivalent — Physics. a unit that quantifies the biological effectiveness of an absorbed dose of ionizing radiation, obtained by multiplying the absorbed dose by dimensionless factors that account for the kind of radiation, its energy, and the nature of the… …
