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- 15:56, 12 August 2021 Cone beam computed tomography (hist) [1,423 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A form of x-ray computed tomography in which the x rays in the form of a divergent cone or pyramid expose...")
- 15:54, 12 August 2021 Collimation (hist) [212 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Geometrical limitation of the extent of the radiation beam. (from ICRP Publication 129, 2015) '''Re...")
- 15:53, 12 August 2021 Cobblestone area forming cell assay (hist) [241 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An in-vitro assay of primitive, self-renewing haematopoietic progenitor cells in marrow. (from ICRP Pu...")
- 15:52, 12 August 2021 Clonogenic surviving fraction (hist) [371 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The fraction of clonogenic cells that survive exposure to, or treatment with, an agent that causes cell d...")
- 15:50, 12 August 2021 Clinical audit (hist) [508 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A systematic examination or review of medical radiological procedures that seeks to improve the quality a...")
- 15:48, 12 August 2021 Carers and comforters (hist) [450 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Individuals other than staff who care for and comfort patients. These individuals include parents and ot...")
- 15:43, 12 August 2021 Broad beam therapy irradiation technique (hist) [390 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Irradiation technique where incident beam from an accelerator is broadened laterally to cover the target...")
- 15:41, 12 August 2021 Breakpoint cluster region/abelson (hist) [227 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A unique chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)-associated genomic rearrangement. (from [[ICRP Publication 131]...")
- 15:39, 12 August 2021 Spread-out Bragg peak (hist) [305 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The extended isoeffect region in depth formed by the optimal stacking of multiple depth dose curves of p...")
- 15:37, 12 August 2021 Bragg peak (hist) [1,130 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The Bragg peak is a pronounced peak on the Bragg curve that plots the energy loss of ion beams during the...")
- 15:34, 12 August 2021 Brachytherapy (hist) [255 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radiation treatment of a patient using sealed sources of radiation placed within the patient’s body. (...")
- 15:33, 12 August 2021 Automatic exposure control (hist) [318 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A device that automatically determines and provides the exposure needed to produce a preselected image qu...")
- 15:30, 12 August 2021 AML/eto (hist) [291 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)-associated chimeric gene/gene product resulting from reciprocal chromosomal...")
- 15:29, 12 August 2021 Apoptosis (hist) [1,002 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An active biochemical process of programmed cell death following radiation, other insults or triggering s...")
- 15:26, 12 August 2021 Air kerma at the patient entrance reference point (hist) [1,031 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The air kerma at a point in space located at a fixed distance from the focal spot (see “Patient en...")
- 15:24, 12 August 2021 Adenoma (hist) [448 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A benign tumour of glandular origin. Adenomas can grow from many organs including the colon, adrenal glan...")
- 15:16, 12 August 2021 Working level month (hist) [882 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The cumulative exposure from breathing an atmosphere at a concentration of 1 [working level] (WL) for a w...")
- 15:13, 12 August 2021 Working level (hist) [1,223 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In the context of exposure to Radon and Radon progeny, the historical unit for potential alpha energy con...")
- 15:08, 12 August 2021 Worker (hist) [336 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Any person who is employed, whether full time, part time, or temporarily, by an employer, and who has rec...")
- 15:05, 12 August 2021 Waste management (hist) [249 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The whole sequence of operations starting with the generation of waste and ending with disposal. (from [...")
- 15:02, 12 August 2021 Upper reference levels (hist) [286 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Maximum values of exposure under which ICRP recommends national authorities to establish their own nation...")
- 15:00, 12 August 2021 Trophic level (hist) [518 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The hierarchy within a food web characterized by organisms that share the same function in a food chain....")
- 14:59, 12 August 2021 Transmission detection system (hist) [769 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A security screening device using ionising radiation to create an image by measuring radiation transmitte...")
- 14:57, 12 August 2021 Thoron progeny (hist) [556 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Short-lived radioactive decay products of radon-220. In the context of thoron exposure, the following pro...")
- 14:56, 12 August 2021 Surface contamination (hist) [353 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The presence of unwanted levels of radioactive material on the surface of structures, areas, objects, bio...")
- 14:55, 12 August 2021 Superposition principle (hist) [400 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The superposition principle is based on additivity of absorbed dose and means that the total dose in a ta...")
- 14:44, 12 August 2021 Employer (hist) [597 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An organisation, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institutio...")
- 00:02, 12 August 2021 Security screening (hist) [745 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An activity undertaken to detect unintended, unwanted, or deliberately introduced objects or materials th...")
- 00:01, 12 August 2021 Security (hist) [416 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The prevention and detection of, and response to, theft, sabotage, unauthorised access, illegal transfer,...")
- 00:00, 12 August 2021 Sheltering (hist) [549 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The short-term use of a structure to reduce the intake of airborne radionuclides by inhalation and for th...")
- 23:59, 11 August 2021 Solar flare (hist) [828 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A large emission of energetic solar particles ejected into space by the Sun. (Adapted from ICRP Public...")
- 23:38, 11 August 2021 Sealed source (hist) [318 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A radioactive source in which the radioactive material is permanently sealed in a capsule or closely bond...")
- 23:37, 11 August 2021 Source-related assessment (hist) [365 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A radioactive source in which the radioactive material is permanently sealed in a capsule or closely bond...")
- 23:36, 11 August 2021 Region (hist) [536 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A group of countries usually defined by geographical proximity and/or cultural similarities that agree t...")
- 23:35, 11 August 2021 Safety (hist) [306 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Lorem ipsum... (Adapted from ICRP Publication 135, 2017) '''Return to Glossary'''...")
- 23:34, 11 August 2021 Reference value (hist) [2,027 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The value of a parameter recommended by the Commission for use in a bio- kinetic model in the absence of...")
- 23:31, 11 August 2021 Redox (hist) [329 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Oxidation–reduction reactions that describe chemical reactions in which atoms have their oxidation numb...")
- 23:31, 11 August 2021 Radon-prone area (hist) [363 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A geographic area or an administrative region defined on the basis of surveys indicating a significantl...")
- 23:30, 11 August 2021 Radon progeny (hist) [664 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Short-lived radioactive decay products of radon-222. In the context of radon exposure, the following prog...")
- 23:30, 11 August 2021 Radiological attack (hist) [476 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Deliberate and malicious use of radioactive material intended to cause harm to individuals and/or communi...")
- 23:29, 11 August 2021 Radioactive waste (hist) [639 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radioactive material in gaseous, liquid, or solid form for which no further use is foreseen. Controls for...")
- 23:28, 11 August 2021 Protection quantities (hist) [1,530 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Dose quantities which the Commission has developed for radiological protection, and that allow quantifica...")
- 23:25, 11 August 2021 Principles of protection (hist) [903 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A set of principles that apply to radiation sources and to the individual in controllable exposure situat...")
- 23:25, 11 August 2021 Practice (hist) [738 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Human activities that increase the exposure of individuals or the number of individuals so exposed either...")
- 23:22, 11 August 2021 Optimisation of protection (hist) [1,785 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The likelihood of incurring exposure the number of people exposed and the magnitude of their individual d...")
- 23:18, 11 August 2021 Collective dose (hist) [518 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An expression for the aggregate radiation dose incurred by a population defined as the product of the nu...")
- 20:23, 11 August 2021 Operating management (hist) [916 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The person or group of persons that directs, controls, and assesses an organisation at the highest level....")
- 20:22, 11 August 2021 Occupancy factor (hist) [563 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The fraction of time for which a location is occupied by an individual or group. (Adapted from IAEA Glo...")
- 20:21, 11 August 2021 Nominal value (hist) [330 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A value taken to be a representation of an actual value. Such a value is not precisely known and is inten...")
- 20:20, 11 August 2021 National radon survey (hist) [340 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A survey undertaken to determine the radon concentration distribution that is representative of radon exp...")