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Radiation Dosage

"Radiation Dosage" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The amount of radiation energy that is deposited in a unit mass of material, such as tissues of plants or animal. In RADIOTHERAPY, radiation dosage is expressed in gray units (Gy). In RADIOLOGIC HEALTH, the dosage is expressed by the product of absorbed dose (Gy) and quality factor (a function of linear energy transfer), and is called radiation dose equivalent in sievert units (Sv).


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Radiation Dosage" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Radiation Dosage" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 1000 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 82 publications in 2014
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