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Absorption Type
Accelerated fractionation
Acceptance test
Access Control
Accountability
Action Level
Active (red) bone marrow
Activity median thermodynamic diameter (AMTD)
Activity, A
Acute Exposure
Adventitious
Adventitious Source
Aerodynamic diameter (dae)
Air sampling
Air-kerma rate constant
Air-kerma rate constant (Γδ)
Air-kerma, entrance surface
Air-kerma, incident (Ki)
Air-kerma, product (PKA)
Alimentary tract
Alimentary tract transfer factor, fA
Alpha decay
Alveolar-interstitial region, AI
Angiogenesis
Annihilation photons
Annual dose
Area monitoring
Auger transition
Authorised Discharge
Authorization
Authorized limit
Autoimmune disease
Autonomy
Avalanche
Averted dose
Background dose (rate)
Backscatter Factor (B)
Basal cell
Beneficence
Benthic
Best Available Techniques (BAT)
Beta-minus decay
Beta-plus decay
Bioassay
Bioassay function
Biokinetic model
Biological dosimetry
Biomedical research volunteer
Bioturbation
Bone marrow
Bradycardia
Branching fraction
Bronchial region
Bystander effect
Calibration
Cardiac arrhythmias
Cardiac valve diseases
Cardiomyopathy
Cardioverter-defibrillator
Categories of exposure
Category of exposed individual
Cell death
Chromosome dosimetry
Chronic exposure
Class SR-0 gases
Class SR-1 gases
Class SR-2 gases
Clearance level
Clonogenic cells
Clonogenic survival
Co-expertise
Colony
Committed effective dose, E(τ)
Commodity
Complex tissues
Computed tomography dose index, CTDI
Conditional renewing (complex or flexible) tissues
Confidence limits
Confinement
Connective tissue
Consequential late effects
Constancy test
Consumer product
Contamination
Control measures
Coronary heart disease/congestive heart disease
Cortical (bone) marrow
Cost-benefit analysis
Coster-Kronig (CK) transition
Critical group
Curie, Ci
Cytokines
D0
Decay constant
Decision threshold
Decommissioning
Decontamination
Decontamination factor
Defence-in-depth
Deontological Ethics
Deposition class
Derived consideration reference level
Diastasis
Dichotomous
Differentiation
Dignity
Direct bioassay
Disposal
Disposal Facility
DNA damage signalling
Dose assessment/estimation
Dose constraint
Dose criteria
Dose equivalent in an organ or tissue, HT,Q
Dose limit
Dose Modifying Factor (DMF)
Dose per unit intake, DPUI
Dose rate
Dose rate effectiveness factor, DREF
Dosemeter/dosimeter
Dose-rate effect
Dose–response function (DRF)
Dose-threshold
Dosimetrists
Dysrhythmia
Early effect
Early normal tissue responses
Effect Dose 50 (ED50)
Effective charge number, Z*
Effective dose equivalent, HE
Effective half-life (Teff)
Electron-capture decay
Electrophysiology
Emergency
Emergency exposure situation
Emergency plan
Emergency preparedness
Emergency procedures
Emergency Worker
Endogeneous excretion
Entrance surface dose
Environmental (radiation) monitoring
Environmental exposure
Environmental radiation protection
Epithelium
Equity
Equivalent dose (HT)
Erythropoietin
Ethics
Event tree analysis
Excretion function
Excretion rate
Exempt waste
Exemption level
Existing exposure situation
Exponential survival curve
Exposure
Exposure assessment
Exposure Pathway
Exposure situation
External radiation
Extrapolation number
Extrathoracic airways
Extremity dosemeter
Fairness
Fault tree analysis
Field-size effect
Fixed (surface) contamination
Flexible tissues
Fluoroscopically guided interventions
Forbiddenness
Fractionation
Fractionation sensitivity
Galactic cosmic radiation (GCR)
Gamma ray
Gastrointestinal
Gastrointestinal syndrome
Geochemical phase association
Graded approach
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor
Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
Growth fraction
Growth hormone (somatotropin)
Habitual mouth breather
Habitual nose breather
Half-life, physical (T1/2)
Hazard
Health Surveillance
Heliosphere
Hierarchical tissues
High level waste, HLW
Hormones
Human Respiratory Tract Model (HRTM)
Hyperbaric oxygen
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Hypoplasia
Immune system
In vivo measurement
Inactive (bone) marrow
Incident
Inclusiveness
Individual decontamination
Individual dose
Individual dose equivalent
Individual dose restriction
Individual monitoring
Individual-related
Individual-related
Individual-related assessment
Informed Consent
Ingestion exposure planning zone, IEPZ
Inhalability
Inhalation class
Initial slope
Inner bremsstrahlung
Institutional control
Intermediate level waste, ILW
Internal conversion electron
Interphase death
Intervention Level
Interventional procedure
Investigation level
Iodine prophylaxis
Iso-effect plots
Isolation
Isomeric transition decay
Isomers
Isotropic geometry
Iteroparous
Itinerant (radiation) worker
Justice
Justification
K, Kp index
Kerma-area product (KAP)
Late effect, delayed effect
Latent time/period or latency interval
Legal person
Legislators
Limit
Limitation of dose
Lineal energy
Linear no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis
Linear-non-threshold (LNT) model
Low Earth orbit (LEO)
Low level waste, LLW
Low toxicity alpha emitter
Lung absorption type
Lymphatic system
Macrophage colony stimulating factor
Magnetosphere
Medical exposure
Medical intervention
Member of the public
Mendelian diseases
Minimum significant activity (MSA)
Mitigation
Monitoring
Multistage tumorigenesis
Myocardial perfusion
Nasal Augmenter
Natural background
Natural environment
Naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM)
Necrosis
Neurological syndrome
Neurovascular syndrome
Non-maleficence
Non-sphericity parameter (η)
Nuclear track detectors
Nuclear transformation
Occupational exposure
Occupationally exposed worker
Edema
Operational intervention level, OIL
Operational monitoring
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimeters
Optimisation
Orphan source
Oversight
Particle radiance, Φ ̇Ω
Patient
Patient entrance reference point
Peak skin dose
Pelagic
Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
Pericarditis
Personal air sampling
Personal/Individual Monitoring
Pharynx
Planned exposure situation
Platelet-derived growth factor
Poisson distribution
Potential exposure
Practical radiological protection culture
Precautionary principle
Precautionary principle
Prevailing circumstances
Primary limit
Primordial radionuclides
Principle of application of dose limits
Principle of justification
Principle of optimisation
Procedural values
Progenitor cell
Prognosis
Programmed cell death
Projected dose
Prophylaxis
Prospective dose assessment
Protection strategy
Protective action
Protective action guide, PAG
Protective clothing
Prudence
Public exposure
Qualified expert
Rad
Radiation belt
Radiation detriment
Radiation dose
Radiation level
Radiation modifier
Radiation protection programme
Radiation safety officer, RSO
Radiation Source
Radiation worker
Radioactive contamination
Radioactive dispersion device (RDD)
Radioactive source
Radioactive substance
Radioactivity
Radiofrequency ablation
Radiographer
Radiological Controlled Area
Radiological practice in medicine
Radiological protection principles
Radiological survey
Radionuclides of natural origin
Radioresponsiveness
Radiosensitiser
Radiosensitivity, cellular
Radon
Random error
Reasonableness
Recording level
Recovery
Recovery responder
Red (bone) marrow
Reference level
Reference Man
Regulation
Regulator
Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation of living conditions
Relocation
Rem
Remedial action
Remediation
Repopulation
Representative organism (non-human biota)
Representative person
Reproductive integrity
Residual dose
Respiratory protection
Retention function
Retrievability
Retrospective dose assessment
Reversibility
Right to know
Rigidity threshold
Rigidity, R
Risk constraint
Roentgen, R
Routine monitoring
Safety analysis
Safety case
Safety culture
Scintigraphy
Self-help protection
Semelparous
Senescence
Sensitivity analysis
Slow repair
Soft tissue
Solar cosmic radiation
Solar cycle
Solar particle event
Solar wind
Source monitoring
Source term
Source-related
South Atlantic anomaly
Special (non-routine) monitoring
Species
Specific activity
Spontaneous fission
Stakeholder
Stenosis
Storage
Stress test
Stroke
Subcutaneous tissue
Substantial radiation dose level (SRDL)
Supervised Area
Syndrome
System of radiological protection
Systemic model
Tachycardia
Target cell
Target tissue (T)
Task-related monitoring
Telangiectasia
Thermodynamic diameter
Thermoluminescence detector
Thoron
Threshold dose for tissue reactions
Thyroid blocking
Time factor
Tissue equivalent material
Tissue-rescuing unit
Tolerability
Total dose
Trabecular (bone) marrow
Track structure
Transfer coefficient
Transfer compartment
Transforming growth factor (TGF)
Transit cells
Transition
Transparency
Trapped particles
Type F materials
Type M materials
Type of exposure situations
Type S materials
Type V materials
Unsealed source
Utilitarian ethics
Value judgement
Valvular heart disease
Virtue ethics
Volume effect
Waste disposal
Weighted CTDI
Whole body counter, WBC
Wisdom
Workers' health surveillance
X ray
Xerostomia
Yellow (bone) marrow
