Radiation Quantities and Units

Quantification of radionuclide transfer in terrestrial and freshwater environments.

The paper gives an overveiew of radioecological concepts, reference information on plants and soils used in the project. Main classification schemes applied to summarize the data on radionuclide transfer to plants are also described. Generic quantities and units used in the current document are also given. They are mainly defined according to the the ICRU 65 report. 1. DEFINITIONS, QUANTITIES A...

Radiation Quantities and Units , Dose to the Patients , and Image Quality in Computed Tomography ( CT ) ( RAD UNITS )

Radiation Units, Limits and Dose Constraints

Y. Lemoigne and A. Caner (eds.), Radiation Protection in Medical Physics, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics 1, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0247-9_2, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Abstract A number of radiation units exist for representing radiation dose to patients, staff, public and quantities for radiation equipment performance in radiological pract...

Dosimetric Concepts and Calibration of Instruments

The development of dosimetric concepts and the definition of specific quantities for use in radiation protection has a long history. An important basis for the present concepts was already provided in the 60’s and 70’s by both the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU). In 1991 in its Publication 60 ...

Methods for monitoring patient dose in dental radiology.

Different types of X-ray equipment are used in dental radiology, such as intra-oral, panoramic, cephalometric, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) units. Digital receptors have replaced film and screen-film systems and other technical developments have been made. The radiation doses arising from different types of examination are sparsely documented a...