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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 108:270-271 (2004)
Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 108 No. 3 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Book Review

Relative biological effectiveness (RBE), quality factor (Q) and radiation weighting factor (wR)

Editor: J. Valentin, Published by: ICRP Publication 92, Annals of the ICRP, Vol: 33(4), 117 pp (2003)

David M. Taylor

davtay@globalnet.co.uk

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This report, prepared by a joint Task Group of Committees 1 and 2 of the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), is one of a series of documents being prepared by ICRP Committees to advise the Commission on the formulation of its next generation of Recommendations. The effects of ionising radiation are influenced by the dose, dose rate and the type, or ‘quality’, of the radiation. Prior to the 1990 Recommendations, dose equivalent quantities were defined by a quality factor Q(L) that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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