Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment

Radiology equipment is used in the medical profession for the purpose of creating images that expose internal parts of the body.

Industry: Medical devices

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somatic effects

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Effects of radiation that are limited to the exposed person, as distinguished from genetic effects, which may also affect subsequent generations. See also teratogenic effects.

special nuclear material (SNM)

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

Plutonium and uranium enriched in the isotope uranium-233 or uranium 235. (chemical/biological/radiological incident handbook, central intelligence agency)

absolute risk

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The proportion of a population expected to get a disease over a specified time period. See also risk, relative risk.

absorbed dose

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The amount of energy deposited by ionizing radiation in a unit mass of tissue. It is expressed in units of joule per kilogram (j/kg), and called “gray” (gy). For more information, see “primer on ...

Elements in the periodic table with atomic numbers from 90 to 103 (thorium to lawrencium); i.e., elements with a higher atomic number than actinium, which has an atomic number of 89. These are also ...

activity (radioactivity)

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The property of certain nuclides of emitting radiation by spontaneous transformation of their nuclei. Various units of (radio)activity have been used including curie (1 ci = 3.7 x 1010 ...

acute exposure

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

An exposure to radiation that occurred in a matter of minutes rather than in longer, continuing exposure over a period of time. See also chronic exposure, exposure, fractionated exposure.