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[[File:Glossary Icon-2.png|100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary]]
Radiation with a high [[capacity, by its own or by the secondary radiations it generates, of linear energy transfer]]; for examplehigher than around 10 keV μm<sup>-1</sup>. Normally high LET radiation is assumed to include protons, α neutrons and alpha particles (or other particles, heavy ions, and interaction products of fast neutrons. The ionisation density along the trajectory is highsimilar or greater mass) except for protons having energies greater than around 4 MeV.
See also [[ICRP Publication 118low linear energy transfer radiation]], 2012and [[linear energy transfer]].
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