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  • Thumbnail for Dose–response relationship
    The dose–response relationship, or exposure–response relationship, describes the magnitude of the response of an organism, as a function of exposure (or...
    17 KB (1,788 words) - 21:35, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Banana equivalent dose
    equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure, intended as a general educational example to compare a dose of radioactivity...
    15 KB (1,723 words) - 08:09, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Acute radiation syndrome
    to radiation exposure, with greater doses resulting in a shorter delay in symptom onset. These presentations presume whole-body exposure, and many of...
    65 KB (6,783 words) - 14:08, 5 September 2024
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    their exposure. As of 2012, the risk of low dose radiation in medical imaging was unproven. It is difficult to establish risks associated with low dose radiation...
    33 KB (3,707 words) - 12:06, 30 August 2024
  • avoidance or reduction of dose using the simple protective measures of time, distance and shielding. The duration of exposure should be limited to that...
    49 KB (5,947 words) - 05:14, 14 August 2024
  • excessive exposure are not taken. Exposure to ionizing radiation causes cell damage to living tissue and organ damage. In high acute doses, it will result...
    60 KB (6,552 words) - 17:17, 7 September 2024
  • between exposure and vomiting may be used as a heuristic for quantifying a dose when more precise means of testing are unavailable. The absorbed dose is equal...
    15 KB (1,871 words) - 07:17, 28 July 2024
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    Sievert (category Units of radiation dose)
    radiation exposure. To calculate the value of stochastic health risk in sieverts, the physical quantity absorbed dose is converted into equivalent dose and...
    68 KB (6,574 words) - 10:39, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Linear no-threshold model
    body due to exposure to ionizing radiation. The model assumes a linear relationship between dose and health effects, even for very low doses where biological...
    39 KB (4,584 words) - 02:24, 25 July 2024
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    Dosimeter (redirect from Dose meter)
    occupational exposure can be made. Such devices are known as "legal dosimeters" if they have been approved for use in recording personnel dose for regulatory...
    12 KB (1,521 words) - 16:27, 30 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flight-time equivalent dose
    Flight-time equivalent dose (FED) is an informal unit of measurement of ionizing radiation exposure. Expressed in units of flight-time (i.e., flight-seconds...
    15 KB (1,069 words) - 19:57, 17 May 2024
  • based on plasma exposure levels. In the early days of pharmaceutical toxicology, TI was frequently determined in animals as lethal dose of a drug for 50%...
    25 KB (3,212 words) - 16:01, 10 September 2024
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    process works well after high-dose exposure but is much slower in the case of a low-dose exposure. Studies have shown low-dose gamma radiation may be enough...
    60 KB (7,399 words) - 18:10, 9 September 2024
  • lethal dosage from exposure, where C is concentration and t is time. It is often expressed in terms of mg-min/m3. LCt50 is the dose that will cause incapacitation...
    14 KB (1,684 words) - 04:52, 26 June 2024
  • lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for "lethal dose, 50%"), LC50 (lethal concentration, 50%) or LCt50 is a toxic unit that measures the lethal dose of a given...
    58 KB (4,277 words) - 19:39, 10 September 2024
  • exposure. Generally the effects of different doses can be very different at different levels (not only bigger and smaller impacts depending on dose)...
    4 KB (438 words) - 17:31, 6 August 2024
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    Toxicity (redirect from Acute exposure)
    injected), the time of exposure (a brief encounter or long term), the number of exposures (a single dose or multiple doses over time), the physical...
    30 KB (3,274 words) - 10:06, 15 September 2024
  • from a lifetime of exposure". Reference doses have been most commonly determined for pesticides. The EPA defines an oral reference dose (abbreviated RfD)...
    14 KB (1,882 words) - 20:41, 5 September 2024
  • absorbed doses within radiotherapy. The roentgen, used to quantify the radiation exposure, may be related to the corresponding absorbed dose by use of...
    14 KB (1,515 words) - 19:05, 10 September 2024
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    natural dose (photon number) variation of at least several percent 3 sigma, making the exposure process susceptible to stochastic variations. The dose variation...
    119 KB (13,916 words) - 04:54, 6 September 2024
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