the relative biological effectiveness (often abbreviated as RBE) is the ratio of biological effectiveness of one type of ionizing radiation relative to...

represents the relative biological effectiveness of the radiation and modifies the absorbed dose to take account of the different biological effects of various...

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...

611×1028 electronvolts 4.655×10−8 kilograms mass equivalent The relative effectiveness factor (RE factor) relates an explosive's demolition power to that...

This can skew results significantly if one is examining the Relative Biological Effectiveness of the alpha particle in the cytoplasm, while ignoring the...

with a lower skin dose. Megavoltage X-rays also have lower relative biological effectiveness than orthovoltage x-rays. These properties help to make megavoltage...

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...

January 2016. Hojo, Hidehiro (3 July 2017). "Difference in the relative biological effectiveness and DNA damage repair processes in response to proton beam...

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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megavoltage X-rays or radionuclide γ-rays, increasing their relative biological effectiveness. The energy and penetrating ability of the X-rays produced...

alpha radiation from plutonium and uranium found that when relative biological effectiveness is considered to be 20, the carcinogenic potential (in terms...

Studies with protons and HZE nuclei of relative biological effectiveness for molecular, cellular, and tissue endpoints, including tumor induction, demonstrate...

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...

table at Relative biological effectiveness#Standardization). This weighting factor is also called the Q (quality factor), or RBE (relative biological effectiveness...

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...

possible modifications to the DS86 dosimetry on neutron risk and relative biological effectiveness". Journal of Radiological Protection. 22 (4): 357–70. Bibcode:2002JRP...

produce a higher Rem or Sv value, due to its much higher Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE). Alpha emitters are nowadays rarely used in nuclear...

neutrons have a relatively high relative biological effectiveness, and are roughly ten times more effective at causing biological damage compared to gamma or...

LET of the radiation. Radiation with higher LET and higher relative biological effectiveness (RBE) have a lower OER in mammalian cell tissues. The value...

gamma photon emission. Relative biological effectiveness (RBE) quantifies the ability of radiation to cause certain biological effects, notably either...

sources is their very high linear energy transfer (LET) and relative biological effectiveness (RBE). Beta particle (β) emitters such as yttrium-90 can travel...

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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SI and non-SI units. Gray (unit) Sievert Equivalent dose Relative biological effectiveness Bushberg et al., 2002. The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging...

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...

skin and clothing. Some have hypothesized that alpha's high relative biological effectiveness might be attributable to cell's tendency to absorb transuranic...

carbon-ions are heavier than protons and so provide a higher relative biological effectiveness (RBE), which increases with depth to reach the maximum at...

And ACE collaboration was set up to measure and compare the relative biological effectiveness of protons and antiprotons. The results from ACE experiment...