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

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...

physical quantity absorbed dose, but also takes into account the biological effectiveness of the radiation, which is dependent on the radiation type and...

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...

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

decay rate would suggest, due to the high relative biological effectiveness of alpha radiation to cause biological damage. Alpha radiation is an average of...

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

magnitude (radiation) Radiation poisoning Relative biological effectiveness Rem (unit) Rutherford (unit) Sievert (biological dose equivalent of radiation) "Radioactivity:...

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

thermal units 3.086×109 foot-pounds 1.162×103 kilowatt-hours The relative effectiveness factor (RE factor) relates an explosive's demolition power to that...

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

more effective at cell-damage as gamma rays and X-rays. See relative biological effectiveness for a discussion of this. Examples of highly poisonous alpha-emitters...

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

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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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...

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

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...

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

would suggest. This is due to the high relative biological effectiveness of alpha radiation to cause biological damage after alpha-emitting radioisotopes...

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

RBE is relative biological effectiveness, a health physics concept. RBE may also refer to: Rock County Airport, Nebraska, United States: FAA LID code...

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

renowned for work on radiation dose measurement and research into the biological effects of radiation. The sievert is used for radiation dose quantities...

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

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

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

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...

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

(May 2016). "Disruption of SLX4-MUS81 Function Increases the Relative Biological Effectiveness of Proton Radiation". International Journal of Radiation Oncology...