In dosimetry, linear energy transfer (LET) is the amount of energy that an ionizing particle transfers to the material traversed per unit distance. It...
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are same concepts. Although the CIPM definition states that the linear energy transfer function of the ICRU is used in calculating the biological effect...
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tissue in different ways. Photons and beta particles have a low linear energy transfer (LET) coefficient, meaning that they ionize atoms in the tissue...
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will interact with the protons in hydrogen via linear energy transfer, energy that a particle transfers to the material it is moving through. This mechanism...
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dimensionless factor Q (quality factor) defined as a function of linear energy transfer by the ICRU" H = Q × D The value of Q is not defined further by...
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has also been performed. These studies require adjustments for photon energy, dose-rate, and country of origin as well as adjustments made in single...
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Stopping power (particle radiation) (redirect from Non-ionizing energy loss)
the ion as well). Linear electronic stopping power is identical to unrestricted linear energy transfer. Instead of energy transfer, some models consider...
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high-energy photon radiation: X-rays and gamma rays, which produce low-linear energy transfer (low-LET) radiation from secondary electrons. While in space, astronauts...
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have undergone therapeutic radiation treatments have received low-linear energy transfer (LET) radiation (x-rays and gamma rays) doses in the same 50-2,000...
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the font is owned by Letraset; for example, Academy Engraved LET Linear energy transfer, a property of ionizing radiation's interactions with matter Lorentz...
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was too small for laser ranging from the Earth). United States Linear Energy Transfer Spectrometer (LETS) NASA Space radiation can harm astronauts on...
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conservation of energy, energy is transferable to a different location or object, but it cannot be created or destroyed. The energy in many of its forms...
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effective energy of the radiative source. The amount of energy deposited as the particles traverse a section of tissue is referred to as the linear energy transfer...
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effective biological shield, proper attention must be made to the linear energy transfer of the particles as they propagate through the shield. In nuclear...
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a short distance before stopping. Such hydrogen nuclei are high linear energy transfer particles, and are in turn stopped by ionization of the material...
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Span Study of atomic bomb survivors, see Epidemiology data for low-linear energy transfer radiation Linhard–Scharff–Schiøt theory in ion physics LSS (gene)...
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Alpha particle (section Energy and absorption)
standard alpha radioactive decay, alpha particles generally have a kinetic energy of about 5 MeV and a velocity in the vicinity of 4% of the speed of light...
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ionizing-density-radiation (beta-, gamma-, or x-rays), or so-called low linear energy transfer (LET) radiations. Radiosensitivity varies most rapidly for oxygen...
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dose rates. Stopping power (particle radiation) Bremsstrahlung Linear energy transfer Proton therapy Charlie Ma, C-M; Lomax, Tony (2012). Proton and carbon...
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work or energy in the engineering and gravitational systems in United States customary and imperial units of measure. It is the energy transferred upon applying...
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particles from 15 MeV to 60 MeV in an energy channel. LET measures linear energy transfer. TDM measures total ionizing dose of radiation accumulated on RADFET...
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for equivalent radiation exposure. Alpha radiation has a high linear energy transfer (LET) coefficient, which is about one ionization of a molecule/atom...
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data to a particle linear energy transfer spectrum. The Weibull fit was originally used because of a belief that particle energy levels align to a statistical...
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(linear energy transfer) and have an antitumor effect independent of tumor oxygen supply because these particles act mostly via direct energy transfer...
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Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical...
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(2006–) "linear free-energy relation". doi:10.1351/goldbook.L03551 Lassila JK, Zalatan JG, Herschlag D (2011-06-15). "Biological phosphoryl-transfer reactions:...
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statement to Geoff Meggitt, former UK Atomic Energy Authority. Sanders, Charles (2010). Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption. p. 47. Bibcode:2010rhln...
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are irradiated with low-energy thermal neutrons, they undergo nuclear capture reactions, releasing high linear energy transfer (LET) particles such as...
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disintegration) is the process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation. A material containing unstable nuclei is considered radioactive...
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mirrors are capable of concentrating the sun's energy to approximately 30 times its normal intensity. Linear Fresnel reflectors use long, thin segments of...
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