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- 19:12, 19 August 2021 Threshold level (hist) [441 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Values of measured quantities above which some specified action or decision should be taken. They includ...")
- 19:10, 19 August 2021 Thoracic airways (hist) [213 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Combined bronchial bronchiolar and alveolar–interstitial regions. ICRP Publication 130, 2015 '''R...")
- 19:04, 19 August 2021 Spongiosa (hist) [1,117 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Term referring to the combined tissues of the bone trabeculae and marrow tissues (both active and inactiv...")
- 19:01, 19 August 2021 Specific absorbed fraction (hist) [350 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The fraction of energy emitted as a specified radiation type in a source region, <math>S</math>, that is...")
- 18:54, 19 August 2021 S coefficient (radiation weighted) (hist) [1,199 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The equivalent dose to target region <math>r_T</math> per nuclear transformation of a given radionuclide...")
- 18:46, 19 August 2021 Reference worker (hist) [507 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The adult Reference Person combined with the reference dosimetric and biokinetic models and their par...")
- 18:45, 19 August 2021 Reference phantom (hist) [1,268 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Computational anthropomorphic phantom based on medical tomographic images where the anatomy is described...")
- 18:39, 19 August 2021 Reference Person (hist) [979 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Conceptual person for whom the effective dose is defined. The effective dose is evaluated as follows:...")
- 18:35, 19 August 2021 Reference parameter value (hist) [337 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The value of a parameter factor or quantity that is regarded as valid for use in dosimetric calculations...")
- 18:30, 19 August 2021 Reference individual (hist) [993 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Idealised persons (males or female) of various ages with characteristics defined by the Commission for th...")
- 19:39, 18 August 2021 Specific effective energy (hist) [539 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Specific effective energy, <math>[SEE(T \leftarrow S)]_R</math>, is the energy, suitably modified for rad...")
- 19:30, 18 August 2021 Voxel phantom (hist) [1,077 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Computational anthropomorphic phantom based on medical tomographic images where the anatomy is described...")
- 18:53, 18 August 2021 Quality factor (hist) [1,814 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A dimensionless factor defined to reflect the relative biological effectiveness of high-LET radiations co...")
- 18:48, 18 August 2021 Potential alpha energy concentration (hist) [495 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The concentration of short-lived radon or thoron progeny in air in terms of the alpha energy emitted duri...")
- 18:46, 18 August 2021 Phantom (hist) [384 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A device that absorbs or scatters radiation in an equivalent manner to a patient used to estimate radiati...")
- 18:43, 18 August 2021 Operational quantity (hist) [1,673 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Quantities used in practical applications for monitoring and investigating situations involving external...")
- 18:35, 18 August 2021 Personal dose equivalent (hist) [2,229 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The dose equivalent in soft tissue at an appropriate depth, d, below a specified point on the human body....")
- 18:32, 18 August 2021 Dose equivalent (hist) [523 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Dose equivalent in an organ or tissue is the product of the mean quality factor, Q<sub>T</sub>, and the...")
- 18:24, 18 August 2021 Particle transport (hist) [318 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Processes that clear material from the respiratory tract to the alimentary tract and to the lymph nodes a...")
- 18:23, 18 August 2021 Other (systemic) tissues (hist) [274 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A term used in biokinetic models to represent in a collective manner tissues not identified explicitly i...")
- 18:17, 18 August 2021 Organ dose equivalent (hist) [211 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Short phrase for ‘dose equivalent in an organ or tissue’. ICRP Publication 123, 2013 '''Ret...")
- 18:16, 18 August 2021 OLINDA/EXM (hist) [207 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Organ Level Internal Dose Assessment / Exponential Modelling. ICRP Publication 106, 2007 '''Return...")
- 17:48, 18 August 2021 Organ/tissue absorbed dose (hist) [1,805 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Absorbed dose, <math>D</math>, averaged over an organ or tissue region, <math>T</math>, as: <math> D_T=\...")
- 17:45, 18 August 2021 Measured quantity (hist) [464 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Primary result of incorporation monitoring; the measured quantity represents in the case of in-vivo meas...")
- 17:42, 18 August 2021 Thermodynamic diameter (hist) [260 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Diameter (μm) of a spherical particle that has the same diffusion coefficient in air as the particle of...")
- 17:38, 18 August 2021 Count median diameter (hist) [305 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Fifty percent (by number) of the particles in the sample measured (e.g. by microscopy) have diameters gre...")
- 17:30, 18 August 2021 Mass median diameter (hist) [968 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Fifty percent of the mass of material in the aerosol is associated with particles of diameter greater tha...")
- 17:25, 18 August 2021 Marrow cellularity (hist) [466 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The fraction of bone marrow volume in a given bone that is haematopoietically active. Age- and bone-site-...")
- 17:19, 18 August 2021 Low linear energy transfer radiation (hist) [425 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radiation with low linear energy transfer (LET), normally assumed to comprise photons (including X rays a...")
- 17:13, 18 August 2021 Linear energy transfer (hist) [551 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The quotient of <math>dE</math> by <math>dl</math>, where <math>dE</math> is the mean energy lost by the...")
- 17:01, 18 August 2021 Kerma (hist) [1,400 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Quantity for ionising uncharged particles, defined by the quotient of <math>dE_{tr}</math> by <math>dm</m...")
- 16:58, 18 August 2021 Kerma approximation (hist) [969 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The numerical value of kerma approaches that of the absorbed dose to the degree that charged part...")
- 02:40, 18 August 2021 Uptake (hist) [271 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Activity that enters blood from the respiratory or alimentary tract or through the skin.(see also Intak...")
- 02:39, 18 August 2021 Intake (hist) [455 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radionuclide that enters the respiratory tract or gastrointestinal tract from the environment. Acute int...")
- 02:35, 18 August 2021 High linear energy transfer radiation (hist) [545 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radiation with a high LET; for example, α particles, heavy ions, and interaction products of fast neutro...")
- 02:33, 18 August 2021 Human Alimentary Tract Model (hist) [286 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Biokinetic model for describing the movement of ingested materials through the human alimentary tract pub...")
- 02:31, 18 August 2021 Human Respiratory Tract Model (hist) [305 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Biokinetic model for describing the deposition, translocation, and absorption of inhaled materials in the human respiratory tract. (published in ICRP Publication 66 (1994)...")
- 02:27, 18 August 2021 Fractional absorption in the gastrointestinal tract (hist) [645 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The fraction of an element directly absorbed from the alimentary tract into blood, referred to as the gut...")
- 02:20, 18 August 2021 Fluence (hist) [757 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The quotient of <math>dN</math> by <math>da</math>, where <math>dN</math> is the number of particles inci...")
- 02:14, 18 August 2021 Exposure (in the context of inhalation) (hist) [462 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The product of the air concentration of a radionuclide to which a person is exposed (Bq <sup>m-3</sup>) a...")
- 02:12, 18 August 2021 Expanded radiation field (hist) [612 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A field where the fluence and its direction and energy distribution have the same values throughout t...")
- 02:09, 18 August 2021 Expanded and aligned radiation field (hist) [296 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A field where the fluence and its energy distribution are the same as in the expanded field, but the flue...")
- 02:06, 18 August 2021 Equilibrium factor (hist) [576 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ratio of the equilibrium equivalent concentration of radon to the actual radon concentration. '''Ret...")
- 18:43, 17 August 2021 Equilibrium equivalent concentration (hist) [332 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The activity concentration of radon gas in equilibrium with its short-lived progeny that would have the s...")
- 18:41, 17 August 2021 Equieffective dose (hist) [655 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary According to ICRU: The total absorbed dose delivered by the reference treatment plan (fraction size <math...")
- 18:34, 17 August 2021 Endosteum (hist) [2,520 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A 50-μm-thick layer covering the surfaces of the bone trabeculae in regions of trabecular spongiosa and...")
- 18:29, 17 August 2021 DS86 (hist) [370 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Dosimetry System 1986, a system for estimating gamma and neutron exposure under a large variety of situat...")
- 18:28, 17 August 2021 DS02 (hist) [417 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Dosimetry System 2002, a system for estimating gamma and neutron exposure under a large variety of situat...")
- 18:24, 17 August 2021 Dose per content function (hist) [766 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A set of tabulated values <math>h_T(50)/m(t)</math> or <math>z(t) = h_T(50)/m(t)</math> used in assessing...")
- 19:52, 12 August 2021 Dose of record Hp (10) (hist) [825 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The effective dose of a worker assessed by the sum of the measured personal dose equivalent H<sub>p</sub>...")
- 19:49, 12 August 2021 Dose of record (E) (hist) [984 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The dose of record (E) refers to the effective dose assessed by summing the measured personal dose eq...")
- 19:47, 12 August 2021 Dose conversion factor (hist) [403 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A value that enables the dose to an organism to be calculated on the assumption of a uniform distribution...")
- 19:46, 12 August 2021 Dose conversion convention (hist) [367 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The dose conversion convention defined in ICRP Publication 65 was used to relate exposure to radon pr...")
- 19:43, 12 August 2021 Dose conversion coefficient (hist) [990 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A coefficient relating a dose quantity to a physical quantity, both for internal and external radiation e...")
- 19:40, 12 August 2021 Dose commitment (hist) [859 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A calculational tool, defined as the infinite time integral of the per caput dose rate <math>E</math> due...")
- 19:35, 12 August 2021 Dose coefficient (hist) [3,335 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A quantity that, when multiplied by a measurement of radionuclide intake, air kerma, particle fluence, or...")
- 19:18, 12 August 2021 Distribution coefficient (hist) [306 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary K<sub>d</sub>, the ratio of the concentrations of a radionuclide in two heterogenous phases (in this case...")
- 19:16, 12 August 2021 Directional dose equivalent (hist) [1,232 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Dose equivalent at a point in a radiation field that would be produced by the corresponding expanded fiel...")
- 19:14, 12 August 2021 Derived investigation level (hist) [620 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A pre-set level of a measurable quantity derived from the investigation level or another primary level. A...")
- 19:13, 12 August 2021 Deposition (hist) [354 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The initial processes determining how much of the material in the inspired air remains behind in the resp...")
- 19:11, 12 August 2021 Cumulative dose (hist) [250 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The total absorbed dose resulting from repeated exposures to ionising radiation over a period of time. (...")
- 19:10, 12 August 2021 Cross section (hist) [1,003 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The cross section of a target entity, for a particular interaction produced by incident charged or unchar...")
- 19:06, 12 August 2021 Compartment (hist) [606 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In this series of reports defined as a mathematical pool of radioactive materials in the body which can...")
- 18:59, 12 August 2021 Collective effective dose (hist) [918 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The collective effective dose due to individual effective dose values between E_1and E_2 from a specified...")
- 18:45, 12 August 2021 Charged-particle equilibrium (hist) [583 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Charged-particle equilibrium in a volume of interest implies that the energies, numbers, and directions o...")
- 18:44, 12 August 2021 Bronchiolar region (hist) [261 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Part of the respiratory tract consisting of the bronchioles and terminal bronchioles (airway generations...")
- 18:43, 12 August 2021 Biological half-life (hist) [358 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The time required, in the absence of further input, for a biological system or compartment to eliminate,...")
- 18:40, 12 August 2021 Derived air concentration (hist) [1,271 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The DAC is the activity concentration in air in Bq m^(-3)of the radionuclide considered that would lead t...")
- 18:36, 12 August 2021 Annual limit on intake (hist) [824 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary (See also Derived air concentration) ALI was defined in ICRP Publication 60 as an intake (in Bq) of...")
- 18:31, 12 August 2021 Annual intake (hist) [254 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The amount of a specified radionuclide entering the human body by ingestion or inhalation within one year...")
- 18:30, 12 August 2021 Ambient dose equivalent (hist) [494 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The dose equivalent at a point in a radiation field that would be produced by the corresponding expanded...")
- 18:29, 12 August 2021 Activity median aerodynamic diameter (hist) [483 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A value of aerodynamic diameter (d<sub>ae</sub>) such that 50% of the activity in the aerosol is associat...")
- 18:27, 12 August 2021 Source region (hist) [364 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Region of the body containing the radionuclide. The region may be an organ, a tissue, the contents of the...")
- 18:18, 12 August 2021 Typical value (hist) [883 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary DRL The median of the distribution of the data for a DRL quantity for a clinical imaging procedure....")
- 18:16, 12 August 2021 Treatment preparation in radiotherapy (hist) [531 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary All the tasks to be performed before the actual radiation delivery is initiated. Treatment preparation is...")
- 18:15, 12 August 2021 Digital breast tomosynthesis (hist) [435 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Multiple mammographic x-ray exposures of the breast are obtained using many projection angles. The inform...")
- 18:14, 12 August 2021 Tolerance dose (hist) [452 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radiotherapy The maximum radiation dose or intensity of fractionated radiotherapy that is associated wit...")
- 18:13, 12 August 2021 Time-resolved computed tomography (hist) [577 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The generation of CT datasets from serial three-dimensional volumetric images obtained as a function of t...")
- 18:11, 12 August 2021 Teratocarcinoma (hist) [302 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A malignant neoplasm consisting of elements of teratoma with those of embryonal carcinoma or choriocarcin...")
- 18:10, 12 August 2021 Stem cell (hist) [861 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Cells with an unlimited proliferative capacity, capable of self-renewal and differentiation to produce al...")
- 18:09, 12 August 2021 Standard-size adult (hist) [830 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary It is important to have some standardisation of patient size if the number of patients for whom dose surv...")
- 18:07, 12 August 2021 Slice (hist) [312 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In CT and CBCT A tomographic section (defined by the position and thickness) of a test phantom or patie...")
- 18:06, 12 August 2021 Size-specific dose estimate (hist) [680 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A patient dose estimate for computed tomography (CT) scans that considers corrections based on the size (...")
- 18:05, 12 August 2021 Shielding (hist) [331 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The placement of a high-absorption material (e.g. lead, concrete) between the source and its environment...")
- 18:04, 12 August 2021 Secondary radiation (hist) [407 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Radiation produced by interaction between the primary beam and the matter. In the radiotherapy treatment...")
- 18:03, 12 August 2021 Relative survival (hist) [354 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ratio of the proportion of cancer patients who survive for a specified number of years (e.g., 5 years...")
- 18:02, 12 August 2021 Registry (hist) [608 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A collection of information. A registry is usually organised so that the data in it can be analysed. Regi...")
- 18:01, 12 August 2021 Regional diagnostic reference levels (hist) [349 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary DRLs set in a region based on either a representative sample of health facilities or on national DRL va...")
- 17:59, 12 August 2021 Reference air kerma (hist) [1,549 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Air kerma of the primary x-ray beam measured under specific conditions and expressed as the equivalent va...")
- 17:57, 12 August 2021 Referrer (hist) [323 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A medical doctor, dentist, or other health professional who is entitled to refer individuals for medical...")
- 17:56, 12 August 2021 Rb (hist) [240 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Retinoblastoma proto-oncogene with tumour suppressor function; limits excessive cell growth. (ICRP Pub...")
- 17:55, 12 August 2021 Ras (hist) [331 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Rat sarcoma proto-oncogene/small guanosine triphosphate hydrolase (GTPase) protein/a basic cell signal tr...")
- 17:53, 12 August 2021 Radiation-induced secondary malignancy (hist) [482 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Late complications of radiotherapy, seen among the survivors of both adult and pediatric cancers. Mutagen...")
- 17:52, 12 August 2021 Radiation-induced second cancer (hist) [208 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Malignant neoplasm attributed to radiation delivered during radiotherapy for a primary cancer. '''Return...")
- 17:51, 12 August 2021 Quality control testing (hist) [357 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary X-ray equipment Measurements that evaluate the current state of x-ray equipment performance and image qu...")
- 17:49, 12 August 2021 Potential recoverability correction factor (hist) [397 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A set of factors that take account of knowledge that different classes of germ line mutation will show di...")
- 17:47, 12 August 2021 Pilomatricoma (hist) [252 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A slowly growing, benign skin tumour originating from primitive cells of the hair matrix and hair shaft....")
- 17:46, 12 August 2021 Pencil beam (hist) [424 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A beam of radiant energy concentrated in an approximately conical or cylindrical portion of space of rela...")
- 17:45, 12 August 2021 Oxygen enhancement ratio (hist) [512 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ratio of the absorbed dose required to cause the same biological endpoint in hypoxic conditions as in...")
- 17:44, 12 August 2021 Organ at risk (hist) [304 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An organ that may be damaged during exposure to radiation. OAR most frequently refers to healthy organs l...")
- 17:43, 12 August 2021 Molecular imaging (hist) [574 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Molecular imaging is the visualization, characterization, and measurement of biological processes at the...")
- 17:42, 12 August 2021 Nuclear medicine (hist) [470 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Nuclear medicine: Nuclear medicine uses radionuclides or tracers labelled with radionuclides in human and...")
- 17:41, 12 August 2021 Notification value (hist) [1,289 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In CT A facility-defined value for volume CT dose index (CTDI<sub>vol</sub>) or dose–length product (...")
- 17:38, 12 August 2021 Noise (hist) [680 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In imaging A fundamental statistical phenomenon that is present in all images. Noise tends to reduce the...")
- 17:37, 12 August 2021 Multitarget equation (hist) [692 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Model that assumes the presence of a number of critical targets in a cell, all of which require inactivat...")
- 17:31, 12 August 2021 Multifactorial diseases (hist) [226 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Diseases that are attributable to multiple genetic and environmental factors. ((ICRP Publication 103...")
- 17:29, 12 August 2021 Multi-detector computed tomography (hist) [804 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary MDCT systems are CT scanners with a detector array consisting of more than a single row of detectors. The...")
- 17:28, 12 August 2021 Mean glandular dose (hist) [902 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In mammography D<sub>G</sub> is the mean absorbed dose in the glandular tissue of the breast. Glandular t...")
- 16:50, 12 August 2021 National DRL (hist) [508 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary DRL value set in a country based on data from a representative sample of healthcare facilities in that co...")
- 16:48, 12 August 2021 Local DRL (hist) [703 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A DRL for an x-ray procedure set in healthcare facilities within part of a country for a defined clinica...")
- 16:46, 12 August 2021 Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (hist) [479 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Advanced mode of high-precision radiotherapy that uses computer-controlled linear accelerators to deliver...")
- 16:44, 12 August 2021 Hyperfractionation (hist) [507 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Significant reduction in dose per fraction below a conventional level of 1.8–2.0 Gy to give a greater t...")
- 16:43, 12 August 2021 Hounsfield unit (hist) [703 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Number used to represent the mean x-ray attenuation associated with each elemental area of the CT image....")
- 16:31, 12 August 2021 Growth factor (hist) [623 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An organic molecule that stimulates cell proliferation when it binds to its cellsurface receptor. Often s...")
- 16:28, 12 August 2021 Graft vs host disease (hist) [346 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In transplants, reaction by immunologically competent cells of the donor against the antigens present on...")
- 16:27, 12 August 2021 GATA binding protein 2 (hist) [321 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Master regulatory gene encoding for zinc finger DNA binding domain transcription factors/regulatory gene/...")
- 16:26, 12 August 2021 Gastroschisis (hist) [291 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A congenital defect characterised by a defect in the anterior abdominal wall through which the abdominal...")
- 16:25, 12 August 2021 Gastrulation (hist) [354 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Early phase in the embryonic development of most animals, during which the single-layered blastula is re-...")
- 16:24, 12 August 2021 Functional subunits (hist) [513 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Subunit of an organ (or tissue) performing a certain function for the organ. e.g., nephrons in kidney, al...")
- 16:23, 12 August 2021 Fractionation and dose delivery patterns (hist) [447 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The dose per fraction of radiation is the total dose divided into a particular number of fractions. A ver...")
- 16:21, 12 August 2021 Fluoroscopically or computed tomography guided interventions (hist) [1,020 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Procedures comprising image guided therapeutic or diagnostic interventions by percutaneous or other acces...")
- 16:19, 12 August 2021 Exogenous excretion (hist) [269 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Term used to specify the (faecal) excretion of material that passes through the alimentary tract without...")
- 16:18, 12 August 2021 DRL quantity (hist) [819 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A commonly and easily measured or determined radiation metric (e.g. K<sub>a,e</sub>, K<sub>a,i</sub>, CTD...")
- 16:16, 12 August 2021 DRL value (hist) [957 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An arbitrary notional value of a DRL quantity usually set at the 75th percentile of the distribution...")
- 16:13, 12 August 2021 DRL process (hist) [330 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The cyclical process of establishing DRL values using them as a tool for optimisation and subsequently de...")
- 16:10, 12 August 2021 Dose-length product (hist) [784 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A parameter used as a surrogate measure for patient dose in a computed tomography scan of length L. By co...")
- 16:07, 12 August 2021 Diagnostic reference level (hist) [1,550 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A diagnostic reference level is a form of investigation level used as a tool to aid in optimisation of p...")
- 16:04, 12 August 2021 Detector quantum efficiency (hist) [912 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A measure of the combined effects of the signal (related to image contrast) and noise performance of an i...")
- 16:03, 12 August 2021 Exposure index (hist) [571 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Indicator displayed on digital radiography equipment (computed radiography or digital radiography) relate...")
- 16:01, 12 August 2021 Dental and maxillofacial imaging (hist) [609 bytes] Chris Clement (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Dental and maxillofacial imaging refers to imaging of high-contrast structures related to the teeth and j...")
- 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...")
- 20:20, 11 August 2021 Licensee (hist) [358 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The holder of a current legal document issued by the regulatory body granting authorisation to perform sp...")
- 20:18, 11 August 2021 Intervention (hist) [575 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Any action intended to reduce or avert exposure or the likelihood of exposure in emergency or existing ex...")
- 20:17, 11 August 2021 ICRU sphere (hist) [444 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ICRU sphere is a 30-cm tissue-equivalent (ICRU 4-element tissue) sphere. (Adapted from ICRP Public...")
- 20:14, 11 August 2021 ICRU 4-element tissue (hist) [568 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary ICRU 4-element tissue has a density of 1 g cm^(-3), and a mass composition of 76.2% oxygen, 11.1% carbon,...")
- 20:12, 11 August 2021 Ground-level enhancement (hist) [655 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Significant elevation in radiation levels at the Earth’s surface due to cosmic rays emitted by solar fl...")
- 20:11, 11 August 2021 Frequent flyer (hist) [476 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A person who travels regularly by aircraft, for personal reasons or professional duties, and who may be r...")
- 20:09, 11 August 2021 Exposed individuals (hist) [727 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A person who has been, or is to be, exposed to radiation. The Commission distinguishes between three cate...")
- 20:08, 11 August 2021 Exclusion (hist) [534 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The deliberate omission of a particular type of exposure from the scope of regulatory control on the basi...")
- 20:07, 11 August 2021 Evacuation (hist) [698 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The rapid, temporary removal of people from an area to avoid or reduce short term radiation exposure in a...")
- 20:03, 11 August 2021 Designated area (hist) [254 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary An area that is either ‘controlled’ or ‘supervised’. (Adapted from ICRP Publication 103, 200...")
- 20:02, 11 August 2021 Derived consideration reference level (hist) [976 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A dose rate above which there is, for a given taxonomic class, a defined chance of deleterious effects of...")
- 20:00, 11 August 2021 Derived limit (hist) [347 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A limit on a measurable quantity set, on the basis of a model, such that compliance with the derived limi...")
- 20:00, 11 August 2021 Derived reference level (hist) [311 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Numerical value expressed in an operational or measurable quantity corresponding to the reference level s...")
- 19:57, 11 August 2021 Cosmic radiation (hist) [1,439 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Ionising radiation that consists of high-energy particles, primarily atomic nuclei, of extra-terrestrial...")
- 19:55, 11 August 2021 Containment (hist) [557 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Ionising radiation that consists of high-energy particles, primarily atomic nuclei, of extra-terrestrial...")
- 19:52, 11 August 2021 Concentration ratio (hist) [594 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary The ratio of the activity concentration of a radionuclide within an organism (or one specific tissue of t...")
- 19:44, 11 August 2021 Compartment (environmental) (hist) [360 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A representation of a material with (relatively) homogeneous properties (e.g. soil, sediment, air, organi...")
- 19:42, 11 August 2021 Commissioning (hist) [370 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Testing carried out after new equipment has been installed in order to verify that the equipment is prope...")
- 19:42, 11 August 2021 Clearance (hist) [941 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Removal of radioactive materials or radioactive objects within authorised practices from any further cont...")
- 19:38, 11 August 2021 Backscatter detection system (hist) [775 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A security screening device using ionising radiation by measuring the radiation scattered from an object...")
- 19:37, 11 August 2021 Allometry (hist) [356 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary Relationship between the body mass of an organism and selected (physiological) parameters (e.g. radionucl...")
- 19:36, 11 August 2021 Additional dose (hist) [398 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary For planned exposure situations the ‘additional dose’ would be added to the existing dose, which can...")
- 19:35, 11 August 2021 Active detection system (hist) [358 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary A security screening device using radiation to activate the object being screened that in turn causes rad...")
- 19:33, 11 August 2021 Accreditation (hist) [717 bytes] Charlotte White (talk | contribs) (Created page with "100px|frameless|right|link=ICRP Glossary In the context of ICRP Publication 113, the term ‘accreditation’ means that an organisation has b...")