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(newest | oldest) View (newer 50 | older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 14:02, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Stenosis (Created page with "Narrowing of a hollow structure such as the artery, vessel, alimentary tract, bile duct, ureter and spinal canal. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 120, 2012) ''ICRP Glos...")
- 14:01, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Scintigraphy (Created page with "Nuclear medicine imaging procedure using a gamma camera to obtain images of the radioactive tracer distribution in the body. Also, known as gamma scan. ''ICRP Glossary e...")
- 13:59, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Radiofrequency ablation (Created page with "A procedure using radiofrequency to destroy tissue. In cardiology, one or more catheters are guided via fluoroscopy to the heart muscle, and a burst of radiofrequency energy d...")
- 13:53, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Patient entrance reference point (Created page with "The position at which the cumulative air kerma for interventional x-ray equipment is measured in order to reasonably represent the air kerma incident on the patient’s skin s...")
- 13:51, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Edema (Created page with "Abnormal interstitial accumulation of fluid; for example, pulmonary oedema refers to a build up of fluid in the lungs. (Adapted from ICRPPublication 118, 2012) ''ICRP...")
- 13:42, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Multistage tumorigenesis (Created page with "Stepwise transformation of cells resulting from the accumulation of multiple mutations that lead to the development of tumour from a single (target) cell. (Adapted from ICRP...")
- 13:23, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Medical exposure (Created page with "Radiation exposure incurred by patients as part of their own medical or dental diagnosis or treatment; by persons other than those occupationally exposed knowingly while volun...")
- 13:23, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Lymphatic system (Created page with "Part of the vascular system and an important part of the immune system, comprising a network of fine lymphatic vessels that collects tissue fluids from all over the body which...")
- 13:22, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Interventional procedure (Created page with "Medical procedures performed under medical imaging (e.g. fluoroscopic, CT, US or MRI) guidance. (also see “fluoroscopic guided procedures”) ''ICRP Glossary entry -...")
- 13:20, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Immune system (Created page with "A host defense system comprising many biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease. An immune system detects a wide variety of agents,...")
- 13:20, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (Created page with "Increased muscle thickening in the heart leading to less effective pumping of the blood. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019''")
- 13:19, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Hyperbaric oxygen (Created page with "High oxygen pressures (2–3 atmospheres), which can be used to enhance tissue oxygen availability in radiotherapy. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Gl...")
- 13:18, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Fluoroscopically guided interventions (Created page with "Minimal invasive procedures comprising fluoroscopic guided therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, by percutaneous, endoscopic or other access, usually performed under local...")
- 13:17, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Erythropoietin (Created page with "Cytokine that stimulates red blood cell production (erythropoiesis) in the bone marrow. It regulates erythrocyte levels and stimulates late erythroid progenitor cells to form...")
- 13:16, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Endogeneous excretion (Created page with "Excretion of materials originating from body fluids; e.g. into the gastrointestinal system, the biliary system or the renal collecting system. ''ICRP Glossary entry - M...")
- 13:16, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Electrophysiology (Created page with "Electrophysiology is the branch of physiology that involves the study of electrical activities within the body and the effects of these electrical activities; e.g. image guide...")
- 13:13, 10 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page DNA damage signalling (Created page with "Interacting biochemical processes which recognise and respond to DNA damage in cells, e.g., by causing the arrest of the reproductive cell cycle. (ICRP Publication 103, 2007...")
- 17:49, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Coronary heart disease (Created page with "Narrowing of the coronary arteries which supply oxygenated blood to the heart muscles. Symptoms depend on the degree of narrowing and on whether the narrowing is acute or prog...")
- 17:48, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Connective tissue (Created page with "The tissues of the body that bind together and support various structures of the body. Examples are ligaments, tendons, bone, cartilage, and muscle. (Adapted from ICRP Publi...")
- 17:46, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Cardioverter-defibrillator (Created page with "A battery powered device typically implanted similarly to a pacemaker, which can monitor heart rate and rhythm and deliver electrical therapy such as shocks in response to sus...")
- 17:43, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Cardiomyopathy (Created page with "A disease of the heart muscle that often, but not always, results in a weakening of the pumping strength and dilatation or thickening (hypertrophy) of the left ventricle. (Ada...")
- 17:42, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Cardiac valve diseases (Created page with "A variety of abnormalities to one or more of the four heart valves including stenosis and insufficiencies like mitral stenosis and tricuspid regurgitation. Diseases may be inb...")
- 17:41, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Cardiac arrhythmias (Created page with "A condition in which hear rates are too slow (i.e. under 60 beats per minute), too fast (i.e. above 100 beats per minute) or irregular (e.g. atrial fibrillation), usually attr...")
- 17:40, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Bradycardia (Created page with "A condition where an individual has a resting heart rate typically under 60 beats per minute. Depending on the heart rate and the presence or absence of symptoms or an underly...")
- 17:39, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Biomedical research volunteer (Created page with "Person volunteered with full informed consent as a subject of biomedical research, e.g. causing radiation exposure of the subject. He/she may get or may not get a direct medic...")
- 17:36, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Autoimmune disease (Created page with "A condition arising from an abnormal immune response to a normal body part. Such a response results from the inability of the immune system to distinguish self from non-self....")
- 17:35, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Angiogenesis (Created page with "Growth and development of new blood vessels, from pre-existing blood vessels, which can be mediated through tumour angiogenesis factor. Angiogenesis can be a normal physiologi...")
- 17:35, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Alveolar-interstitial region (Created page with "The distal part of the respiratory tract, consisting of the respiratory bronchioles, alveolar ducts and sacs with their alveoli, and the interstitial connective tissue; i.e. t...")
- 17:34, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Alimentary tract (Created page with "All structures, largely tubular, from mouth to anus in which ingested materialis transported and/or digested and possibly absorbed into the circulatory system. ''ICRP Glo...")
- 17:33, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Adventitious Source (Created page with "Apparatus or devices that incidentally emits ionising radiation in their use, rather than by design. ''ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019''")
- 17:33, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Adventitious (Created page with "Radiation exposure that is incidental to the use of, rather than a function of the design of, apparatus and devices emitting ionising radiation. (Adapted from ICRP Publicat...")
- 17:24, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Transfer compartment (Created page with "The compartment introduced for mathematical convenience into many of the biokinetic models previously used by ICRP to account for the translocation of radioactive material thr...")
- 17:23, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Transfer rate (Created page with "Normalized time rate of transfer of a given material from one system (e.g. organ, organism, compartment, enclosure) to another. ''ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019''")
- 17:22, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Track structure (Created page with "Spatial patterns of energy deposition in matter along the track from the passage of ionising radiation. (ICRP Publication 103, 2007) ''ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019''")
- 17:20, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Threshold dose for tissue reactions (Created page with "Dose estimated to result in only 1% incidence of tissue reactions. (ICRP Publication 103, 2007) ''ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019''")
- 17:18, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Target region (Created page with "Organ or tissue region of the body in which a radiation absorbed dose in received. (ICRP Publication, 2015) ''ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019''")
- 17:17, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Target tissue (Created page with "Organs or tissues in the body for which tissue weighting factors are assigned in the effective dose. In many cases, each target tissue T corresponds to a single target region...")
- 17:16, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Substantial radiation dose level (Created page with "An appropriately selected reference value used to trigger additional dose management actions during a procedure and medical follow-up for a radiation level that might produce...")
- 17:11, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Radiation modifier (Created page with "A substance (e.g. drug) which in itself does not evoke an effect on cells or tissues, but which changes the effect of radiation. (ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Gl...")
- 17:09, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Peak skin dose (Created page with "The maximum absorbed dose to the most heavily exposed localised region of skin (i.e. the localised region of skin that lies within the primary x-ray beam for the longest perio...")
- 17:06, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Particle radiance (Created page with "The quotient of <math>d\dot{Φ}</math> by <math>dΩ</math>, where <math>d\dot{Φ}</math> ̇is the fluence rate of particles propagating within a solid angle <math>dΩ</math> a...")
- 16:57, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Non-sphericity parameter (Created page with "The ratio of surface area of a sphere to that of a non-spherical body of equal mass, i.e. η = A<sub>0</sub>/A. (with regard to ellipsoids, such non-spherical shapes are defin...")
- 16:54, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Linear-non-threshold model (Created page with "A dose-response model which is based on the assumption that, in the low dose range, radiation doses greater than zero will increase the risk of excess cancer and/or heritable...")
- 16:09, 7 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Lineal energy (Created page with "The quotient of <math>ε_i</math> by <math>\bar{l}</math>, where <math>ε_i</math> is the energy imparted to the matter in a given volume by a single energy-deposition event...")
- 19:48, 6 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Iso-effect plots (Created page with "Doses for equal effect (e.g. ED<sub>50</sub>) plotted against dose per fraction or dose rate. (Publication 118, 2012) ''ICRP Glossary entry - May 2019''")
- 19:45, 6 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Α/β ratio (Created page with "A measure of the curvature of the cell survival curve and a measure of the sensitivity of a tissue to dose fractionation. Also, the dose at which the linear and quadratic comp...")
- 19:44, 6 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Fractionation sensitivity (Created page with "The dependence of the iso-effective radiation dose on the dose per fraction. Usually quantified by the α/β ratio – a high fractionation sensitivity is characterised by a l...")
- 19:43, 6 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Fractionation (Created page with "The dose in radiotherapy based on the total dose divided into a particular number of (usually) daily or shorter treatments. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 118, 2012) ''[...")
- 19:41, 6 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Exposure, external or internal (Created page with "The state or condition of being subject to irradiation. External exposure is exposure to radiation from a source outside the body and internal exposure is exposure to radiatio...")
- 19:39, 6 June 2019 Intern (talk | contribs) created page Equivalent dose (Created page with "The equivalent dose in an organ or tissue is given by: <div style='text-align: center;'> <math> H_T = \displaystyle \sum_{R} w_RD_{R,T} </math> </div where D<sub>R,T</sub> i...")