Radiation Quantities and Units Flashcards

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Used to describe a beam of radiation

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Radiation Quantities

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2
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Radiation fall into two general categories:

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Radiation Exposure
Radiation Dose

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3
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Radiation travelling through air
Total radiation delivered to a body

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Radiation Exposure

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4
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Radiation travelling through a medium
Concentration of radiation at some point or to a specific tissue or organ

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Radiation Dose

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5
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a measure of the amount of radiation, and therefore measures a radiation beam.

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Radiation quantities

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6
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Radiation quantities can be categorized into 2:

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Radiation exposure and radiation dose

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7
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which is a measure of the radiation that emanates from the source and delivered to a specific target. It is therefore usually measured in
air

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Radiation exposure

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8
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which is a measure of the concentration of radiation at a given point in matter.

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Radiation dose

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9
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It is a measure of the amount of radiation when the radiation interacts in a medium.

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Radiation dose

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10
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The removal of an orbital electron from an atom.

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Ionization

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11
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Produces an ion pair

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Negatively charged electron and Positively charged ion (atom minus 1 electron)

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12
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causes the deposition of energy to the interacting medium.

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The removal of electron from an atom

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13
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usually transferred to the ejected electron, and will eventually be absorb by the medium as the recoil electron undergoes a series of interaction and eventually come to rest.

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the energy of the incident radiation

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14
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A form of radiation with sufficient energy to excite and or ionize atoms.

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Ionizing Radiation

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15
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Ionizing radiation particles

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•Gamma rays,
X-rays,
heavy charged particles,
•neutrons,
and beta particles are examples of ionizing radiation.

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16
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Not all radiation are capable of ionization. Radiations that are capable of ionization are also called

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Ionizing radiation

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the electromagnetic radiation, high frequency ultraviolet radiation, x-rays and gamma rays are

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ionizing radiation

18
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Ionizing radiation is divided into two categories:

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Directly Ionizing and Indirectly Ionizing

19
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Directly ionizing

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Alpha and beta

20
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Indirectly Ionizing

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photons and neutrons

21
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includes all charged particles.
These particles interact with electrons through long-range Coulombic charged-particle interactions and deliver energy to matter directly.

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Directly ionizing radiation

22
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•includes x-rays, gamma rays, and all uncharged particles. They will typically interact via a transfer of energy to a single charged particle, and it is the secondary charged particle that delivers energy to the absorbing material.

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Indirectly ionizing radiation

23
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unit of exposure

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x

24
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unit of absorbed dose

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D

25
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Unit of equivalent dose

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H

26
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Unit of Activity

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A

27
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It is the measure of ionization produced in air by photons.

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Exposure

28
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It is a quantity of charge released during the ionization of air by passage of radiation under strictly defined conditions.

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Exposure

29
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the measure of radiation that emanates from the source.

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Exposure

30
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measured using ionization chamber.

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Exposure

31
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Exposure is divided into two:

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Primary standard instrument
Secondary instrument

32
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Free air ionization chamber

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Primary standard instrument

33
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Instruments designed for field use such as the Victoreen R meter.

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Secondary instrument

34
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therefore created to produce the conditions necessary to measure radiation exposure. It is through the use of ionization chamber.

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Device

35
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It is the instrument employed in the measurement of the exposure according to the definition of Roentgen (old unit of exposure).

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Free Air Ionization Chamber

36
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the quantity of charge released during the ionization of air by passage of radiation under strictly defined conditions.

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Roentgen

37
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It is generally used for calibration of secondary instruments designed for field use.

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Free Air Ionization Chamber

38
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It is confined to some national standards laboratories.

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Free Air Ionization Chamber

39
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the primary instrument, and is constructed based on the definition of Roentgen, which is the old unit of measure of exposure.

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Free air ionization chamber