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- 13:22, 10 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-25) ICRP Glossary
- 13:22, 10 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+185) N 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 -...")
- 13:21, 10 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-29) ICRP Glossary
- 13:20, 10 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+333) N 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 (diff | hist) (+176) N 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 (diff | hist) (+203) N 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 (diff | hist) (+352) N 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 (diff | hist) (+341) N 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 (diff | hist) (+184) N 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 (diff | hist) (+310) N 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 (diff | hist) (+2) DNA damage signalling
- 13:13, 10 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+218) N 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 (diff | hist) (-29) ICRP Glossary
- 17:49, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+430) N 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 (diff | hist) (-25) ICRP Glossary
- 17:48, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+236) N 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 (diff | hist) (+343) N 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 (diff | hist) (+1) Cardiomyopathy
- 17:43, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+257) N 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 (diff | hist) (+279) N 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 (diff | hist) (+385) N 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 (diff | hist) (+325) N 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 (diff | hist) (+684) N 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...")
- 17:38, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-32) ICRP Glossary
- 17:36, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+426) N 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 (diff | hist) (+323) N 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 (diff | hist) (+252) N 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 (diff | hist) (+202) N 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 (diff | hist) (+233) N 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...")
- 17:30, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-136) ICRP Glossary
- 17:24, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+303) N 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 (diff | hist) (+169) N 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''")
- 17:23, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-7) ICRP Glossary
- 17:22, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+178) N 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''")
- 17:21, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-17) ICRP Glossary
- 17:20, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+141) N 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''")
- 17:19, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-65) ICRP Glossary
- 17:19, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+4) Target region
- 17:18, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+153) N 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''")
- 17:18, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+20) ICRP Glossary
- 17:17, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+471) N 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 (diff | hist) (+472) N 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...")
- 17:15, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-173) ICRP Glossary
- 17:11, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+203) N 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...")
- 17:10, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-130) ICRP Glossary
- 17:09, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+661) N 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 (diff | hist) (+458) N 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 (diff | hist) (-51) ICRP Glossary
- 16:57, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (+333) N 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...")
- 16:56, 7 June 2019 (diff | hist) (-93) ICRP Glossary
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