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ICRP Glossary
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Acute exposure
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Exposure received within a short period of time (in relation to the lifespan of the organism). '''Return..."
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Access control
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Restriction on access into certain designated areas (e.g. a controlled area) to facilitate radiological p..."
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Supervised area
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A defined area not designated as a controlled area but for which occupational exposure conditions are kep..."
ICRP Glossary
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Informed consent
Created page with "The voluntary agreement to an activity based on sufficient information and understanding of the purpose, benefits and risks. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 138) '''Return..."
ICRP Glossary
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ΓH2AX foci
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Accumulations of phosphorylated H2AX histone proteins (referred to as γH2AX) inside cell nuclei that can..."
Α/β value
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A measure of the curvature of the cell survival curve. The α/β value is also the dose at which the line..."
Absolute risk
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Adaptive response
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Adaptive response
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A cellular response induced by a low priming dose which, typically, serves to transiently increase the re..."
Acute radiation syndrome
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Acute radiation syndrome
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A spectrum of responses involving deterministic haematopoietic, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and cen..."
Absolute risk
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The probability or rate of the occurrence of a particular health event (e.g. disease incidence) over a sp..."
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ICRP Glossary
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mICRP Glossary
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Tumour suppressor gene
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A tumour suppressor gene, or anti-oncogene, is a gene that protects a cell from one step on the path to c..."
Transfer of risk
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Taking a risk coefficient estimated for one population and applying it to another population with differe..."
Sublethal damage repair
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary DNA repair occurring during low-dose-rate exposure or between dose fractions, resulting in less cell kill..."
Risk model
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A model describing the variation of the risk coefficient as a function of modifying factors, such as time..."
Relative life lost
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ratio of the proportion of observed years of life lost among people dying of a disease in an exposed..."
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Radiation risk
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The potential harm posed by exposure to radiation. In risk assessment risk is a combination of the probab..."
Potentially lethal damage repair
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary DNA repair occurring in a delay period after irradiation, before cell division occurs. (ICRP Publicatio..."
Population risk
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Weighted averages of the additive (absolute) and multiplicative excess risk estimates with weights based..."
Oncogene
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A gene that, when mutated or overexpressed, contributes to converting a normal cell into a cancer cell. (..."
Mutation component
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A quantity that provides a measure of the relative change in disease frequency per unit relative change i..."
Multistage carcinogenesis model
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Carcinogenesis model associated with a stepwise acquisition of mutations of oncogenes and tumour suppress..."
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mGenomic integrity
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Preservation of the structural and functional content of the genome of cells. (ICRP Publication 131,..."
Elemental dose
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The lowest dose given by a single track of radiation to the nucleus of a cell. (ICRP Publication 131,..."
Detriment-adjusted risk
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The probability of the occurrence of a stochastic effect, modified to allow for the different components..."
Transgenerational effect
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Effect due to inheritance of genomic alterations induced in germ cells by preconceptional exposure of one..."
Somatic effect
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A radiation induced tissue (deterministic) or stochastic health effect that is not heritable. This includ..."
Severe deterministic injury
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Injuries that are directly attributable to the radiation exposure, irreversible in nature, and severely i..."
Ring chromosome
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A type of chromosomal aberration specifically induced by ionising radiation and used as a biomarker of ex..."
Multiplicative risk projection model
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Multiplicative risk projection model
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A risk projection model in which exposure is assumed to lead to an attributable risk that is proportional..."
Low dose rate
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Low dose rate
Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A qualitative term to mean relatively low rate of dose accumulation. Any dose rate of 0.1 mGy min-1 or le..."
ICRP Glossary
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