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• Principle of justification
  ...ient individual or societal benefit to offset any harm including radiation detriment to humans and the environment.
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• Detriment
  ...fe, and years of life lost. It also considers heritable effects. Radiation detriment is estimated as a sex- and age-averaged risk indicator for a composite refe ...eir descendants as a result of the group’s exposure to a radiation source. Detriment is a multi-dimensional concept. Its principal components are stochastic qua
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• Tissue weighting factor
  ...ative contribution of that tissue or organ to the total, stochastic health detriment resulting from uniform irradiation of the body. It is weighted such that <m ...sent the relative contribution of that tissue or organ to the total health detriment resulting from uniform irradiation of the body. It is weighted such that <m
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• Justification
  The process of determining whether: (i) a planned activity involving radiation is beneficial overall (i.e. whether the benefits to individuals and to soci ...nefits to individuals and to society (including the reduction in radiation detriment) from introducing or continuing the remedial action outweigh its cost and a
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• Fundamental Principles of Radiological Protection
  |<span style="font-size=100%"> “Any decision that alters the radiation exposure situation should do more good than harm” The principle of justification: Any decision that alters the radiation exposure situation should do more good than harm.
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• Protection quantities
  ...low quantification of the extent of exposure of the human body to ionising radiation from both whole- and partial-body external irradiation and from intakes of ...low quantification of the extent of exposure of the human body to ionising radiation from both whole and partial body external irradiation and from intakes of r
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• Absorbed, Equivalent, and Effective Dose
  ...ight: 1.1em;"> '''Radiation dose is a measure of the amount of exposure to radiation. There are three kinds of dose in radiological protection. ''Absorbed dose' ...style="font-size=100%"> Absorbed dose is the amount of energy deposited by radiation in a mass.
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• Sievert
  ...o obtain sieverts. The sievert should not be used in the quantification of radiation doses or in determining the need for any treatment in situations where tiss
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• Effective dose
  ...formed over all organs and tissues of the human body for which radiation [[detriment]] can be quantified and for which <math>w_T</math> values are assigned. As ...ting factor for tissue or organ <math>T</math> and <math>w_R</math> is the radiation weighting factor. The unit for effective dose is the same as for absorbed d
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• Quotes from Publications on the System of Radiological Protection
  ...ndicate the cause of an exposure, and not necessarily a physical source of radiation ... </blockquote> ...nt. Scientific data, such as those concerning health risks attributable to radiation exposure, are a necessary prerequisite, but societal and economic aspects o
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• ICRP Glossary
  *Acute radiation sickness (see [[Acute radiation syndrome]]) *[[Acute radiation syndrome]]
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• Information for healthcare providers
  ...for Medical Practitioners<ref name="SG002">[[ICRP Supporting Guidance 2]] Radiation and Your Patient A Guide for Medical Practitioners. Ann. ICRP 31(4), 2001.< ==Radiation health effects==
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