Lexicon A - Z

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A

  • Absorbed dose
  • Abundance
  • Activity
  • Addition
  • ALARA
  • Alpha decay
  • Ambient dose equivalent
  • Ampere
  • Angle
  • Annihilation
  • Antimatter
  • Area
  • Arithmetic
  • Atom
  • Attenuation coefficient
  • Auger effect

B

  • Banana equivalent activity
  • Banana equivalent dose
  • Barn
  • Base units
  • Becquerel
  • Beta decay
  • Bremsstrahlung
  • Buildup factor

C

  • Capacitance
  • Celsius
  • Centimeter
  • Characteristic radiation
  • Charge
  • Collective effective dose
  • Committed effective dose
  • Committed equivalent dose
  • Compton effect
  • Constant (atomic clock)
  • Constant (Avogadro)
  • Constant (Boltzmann)
  • Constant (electron charge)
  • Constant (Planck)
  • Constant (speed of light)
  • Cosmic radiation
  • Cosmogenic radionuclide
  • Coulomb
  • Cross section
  • Curie
  • Current

D

  • Decay constant
  • Degree (angle)
  • Degree (temperature)
  • Density
  • Detector (gas amplification)
  • Detector (ionization)
  • Detector (photographic emulsion)
  • Detector (scintillation)
  • Differential
  • Directional dose equivalent
  • Division
  • Dose constraint
  • Dose conversion coefficient

E

  • Effective dose
  • Electromagnetic radiation
  • Electron
  • Electron capture
  • Electronvolt
  • Energy
  • Energy (electrical)
  • Energy (mass)
  • Energy (mechanical)
  • Energy (photon)
  • Energy (thermal)
  • Equivalent dose
  • Erg
  • Error propagation
  • Exponentiation
  • Exposure

F

  • Farad
  • Fluence
  • Flux
  • Frequency

G

  • Gamma decay
  • Goniometric function
  • Gram
  • Gray

H

  • Half-life
  • Half-value thickness
  • Heat
  • Hertz

I

  • ICRU anthropomorphic phantom
  • ICRU slab
  • ICRU sphere
  • Integral
  • Internal conversion
  • Inverse square law
  • Irradiation geometry

J

  • Joule
  • Justification

K

  • Kelvin
  • Kerma
  • Kerma-rate constant
  • Kilogram

L

  • Length
  • LET
  • Limitation
  • Limiting dose quantity
  • Logarithm taking

M

  • manSievert
  • Mass
  • Mass defect
  • Matter
  • Mean value
  • Meter
  • Mole
  • Molecule
  • Multiplication

N

  • Natural decay chain
  • Neutrino
  • Neutron
  • Neutron activation
  • Nuclear decay
  • Nuclear fission
  • Nuclear fission (natural reactor)
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Nucleosynthesis
  • Number
  • Numeral

O

  • Ohm
  • Operational dose quantity
  • Optimization

P

  • Pair production
  • Personal dose equivalent
  • Person-rem
  • Photoelectric effect
  • Photon
  • Physical dose quantity
  • Pixel
  • Positron
  • Potential
  • Power
  • Prefix
  • Primordial radionuclide
  • Proton

Q

  • Quality factor
  • Quantity

R

  • Rad
  • Radian
  • Radiation weighting factor
  • Radiotoxicity equivalent
  • Range
  • RBE
  • Reference man
  • Rem
  • Resistance
  • Röntgen
  • Root taking

S

  • Scattering
  • Second
  • Sievert
  • Solid angle
  • Standard deviation
  • statCoulomb
  • Statistics
  • statVolt
  • Steradian
  • Stochastic variable
  • Stopping power
  • Subtraction

T

  • Temperature
  • Time
  • Tissue weighting factor
  • Transmission

U

  • Unit

V

  • Velocity
  • Volt
  • Volume
  • Voxel

W

  • Watt
  • Wavelength
  • X-radiation

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