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Radiology equipment
Radiology equipment is used in the medical profession for the purpose of creating images that expose internal parts of the body.
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Radiology equipment
controlled area
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
An area where entry, activities, and exit are controlled to help ensure radiation protection and prevent the spread of contamination.
cosmic radiation
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
Radiation produced in outer space when heavy particles (nuclei of all known natural elements) bombard the earth. See also background radiation, terrestrial radiation.
coulomb
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The international system (si) unit of electric charge. A coulomb is the quantity of charge passing a cross section of conductor in one second when the current is one ampere.
criticality
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
A fission process where the neutron production rate equals the neutron loss rate to absorption or leakage. A nuclear reactor is "critical" when it is operating.
critical mass
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The minimum amount of fissile material that can achieve a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
cumulative dose
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The total dose resulting from repeated or continuous exposures of the same portion of the body, or of the whole body, to ionizing radiation. For more information, see “primer on radiation measurement ...
curie (Ci)
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The traditional measure of radioactivity based on the observed decay rate of 1 gram of radium. One curie of radioactive material will have 37 billion disintegrations in 1 second. For more ...
