Radiation Protection Dosimetry Vol. 111, No. 2 © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved
Editorial
The many facets of dosimetry
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To name a few, we have thermoluminescence dosimetry, electronic dosimetry, even computational dosimetry, but is biodosimetry the name of the ultimate form of dosimetry? The word would imply determination of the absorbed dose of ionizing radiation delivered to a living organism by observing some physical or chemical change in the organism induced by the deposition of radiation energy. Of course, one of the physico-chemical consequences of exposure to ionizing radiation is the death of cells in an organism, and