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W R is the radiation weighting factor defined by regulation. Thus for example, an absorbed dose of 1 Gy by alpha particles will lead to an equivalent dose of 20 Sv, and an equivalent dose of radiation is estimated to have the same biological effect as an equal amount of absorbed dose of gamma rays, which is given a weighting factor of 1.
To obtain an effective dose, the calculated absorbed organ dose D T is first corrected for the radiation type using factor W R to give a weighted average of the equivalent dose quantity H T received in irradiated body tissues, and the result is further corrected for the tissues or organs being irradiated using factor W T, to produce the ...
Radiation weighting factors that go from physical energy to biological effect must not be confused with tissue weighting factors. The tissue weighting factors are used to convert an equivalent dose to a given tissue in the body, to an effective dose, a number that provides an estimation of total danger to the whole organism, as a result of the ...
Radiation dosimetry in the fields of health physics and radiation protection is the measurement, calculation and assessment of the ionizing radiation dose absorbed by an object, usually the human body. This applies both internally, due to ingested or inhaled radioactive substances, or externally due to irradiation by sources of radiation.
Absorbed dose, total ionizing dose (total energy of radiation transferred to unit mass) D can only be found experimentally N/A Gy = 1 J/kg (Gray) [L] 2 [T] −2: Equivalent dose: H = Q = radiation quality factor (dimensionless) Sv = J kg −1 (Sievert) [L] 2 [T] −2: Effective dose: E =
The deterministic effects that can lead to acute radiation syndrome only occur in the case of high doses (> ~10 rad or > 0.1 Gy) and high dose rates (> ~10 rad/h or > 0.1 Gy/h). A model of deterministic risk would require different weighting factors (not yet established) than are used in the calculation of equivalent and effective dose.
When the intensity of the incoming radiation, I λ, is much greater than the intensity of blackbody radiation, B λ (T), the emission term can be neglected. This is usually the case when working with a laboratory spectrophotometer, where the sample is near 300 K and the light source is a filament at several thousand K.
Committed effective dose equivalent (CEDE) as defined in Title 10, Section 20.1003, of the Code of Federal Regulations of the USA the CEDE dose (HE,50) is the sum of the products of the committed dose equivalents for each of the body organs or tissues that are irradiated multiplied by the weighting factors (WT) applicable to each of those ...