• the relative biological effectiveness (often abbreviated as RBE) is the ratio of biological effectiveness of one type of ionizing radiation relative to...
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  • represents the relative biological effectiveness of the radiation and modifies the absorbed dose to take account of the different biological effects of various...
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  • RBE is relative biological effectiveness, a health physics concept. RBE may also refer to: Rock County Airport, Nebraska, United States: FAA LID code...
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    This can skew results significantly if one is examining the Relative Biological Effectiveness of the alpha particle in the cytoplasm, while ignoring the...
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  • conversion constant from rad to rem; the conversion depends on relative biological effectiveness (RBE). The rem has been defined since 1976 as equal to 0.01 sievert...
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    611×1028 electronvolts 4.655×10−8 kilograms mass equivalent The relative effectiveness factor (RE factor) relates an explosive's demolition power to that...
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    with a lower skin dose. Megavoltage X-rays also have lower relative biological effectiveness than orthovoltage x-rays. These properties help to make megavoltage...
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    alpha radiation from plutonium and uranium found that when relative biological effectiveness is considered to be 20, the carcinogenic potential (in terms...
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    January 2016. Hojo, Hidehiro (3 July 2017). "Difference in the relative biological effectiveness and DNA damage repair processes in response to proton beam...
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    effective at cell-damage than gamma rays and X-rays. See relative biological effectiveness for a discussion of this. Examples of highly poisonous alpha-emitters...
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    radiation Orders of magnitude (radiation) Radiation poisoning Relative biological effectiveness "Radioactivity: Radioactive Activity Doses". radioactivity...
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    replaced by that of maximum permissible dose and the concept of relative biological effectiveness was introduced. The limit was set in 1956 by the National...
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    gamma photon emission. Relative biological effectiveness (RBE) quantifies the ability of radiation to cause certain biological effects, notably either...
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    table at Relative biological effectiveness#Standardization). This weighting factor is also called the Q (quality factor), or RBE (relative biological effectiveness...
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  • the absorbed energetic dose to tissue before factoring in relative biological effectiveness. The rep has variously been defined as 83 or 93 ergs per gram...
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    the biological effectiveness (RBE) of the radiation type, For instance, for the same absorbed dose in Gy, alpha particles are 20 times as biologically potent...
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    renowned for work on radiation dose measurement and research into the biological effects of radiation. The sievert unit is used for radiation dose quantities...
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    possible modifications to the DS86 dosimetry on neutron risk and relative biological effectiveness". Journal of Radiological Protection. 22 (4): 357–70. Bibcode:2002JRP...
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  • LET of the radiation. Radiation with higher LET and higher relative biological effectiveness (RBE) have a lower OER in mammalian cell tissues. The value...
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  • would suggest. This is due to the high relative biological effectiveness of alpha radiation to cause biological damage after alpha-emitting radioisotopes...
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    neutrons have a relatively high relative biological effectiveness, and are roughly ten times more effective at causing biological damage compared to gamma or...
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  • skin and clothing. Some have hypothesized that alpha's high relative biological effectiveness might be attributable to cell's tendency to absorb transuranic...
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    produce a higher Rem or Sv value, due to its much higher Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE). Alpha emitters are nowadays rarely used in nuclear...
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    harmful as they tend to have long biological half-lives and their radiation has a high relative biological effectiveness, making it far more damaging to...
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    megavoltage X-rays or radionuclide γ-rays, increasing their relative biological effectiveness. The energy and penetrating ability of the X-rays produced...
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  • sources is their very high linear energy transfer (LET) and relative biological effectiveness (RBE). Beta particle (β) emitters such as yttrium-90 can travel...
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  • SI and non-SI units. Gray (unit) Sievert Equivalent dose Relative biological effectiveness Bushberg et al., 2002. The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging...
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    Experiment (ACE), AD-4, started in 2003. It aims to assess fully the effectiveness and suitability of antiprotons for cancer therapy. The results showed...
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    accommodated by the established parameters in physiological models (relative biological effectiveness, kinetic factors); i.e., that internal radiation does not...
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    Screen Links Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Pathway Defects to Increased Relative Biological Effectiveness of Proton Radiation". Int J Radiation Oncol Biol Phys. 91...
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