Radiation weighting factor
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A dimensionless factor by which the organ or tissue absorbed dose component of a radiation type R is multiplied to reflect the relative biological effectiveness of that radiation type. It is used to derive the organ equivalent dose from the mean absorbed dose in an organ or tissue.
ICRP Publication 130, 2015
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