Effective dose
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Effective dose may refer to:
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- Effective dose (pharmacology)Effective dose (pharmacology)An effective dose in pharmacology is the dose or amount of drug that produces a therapeutic response or desired effect in some fraction of the subjects taking it....
the dose of pharmacologic agent which will have a therapeutic effect in some fraction (to be specified) of the population receiving the drug - Effective dose (radiation safety)Effective dose (radiation safety)The concept of effective dose is used in radiation protection as an estimate of the stochastic effect that a non-uniform radiation dose has on a human. It should not be confused with equivalent dose, which is a related but more general concept. For whole-body radiation, the sum of effective doses...
the radiation dose to a part of the body which has the same effective danger or risk to a person or organism as the same equivalent doseEquivalent doseThe equivalent absorbed radiation dose, usually shortened to equivalent dose, is a computed average measure of the radiation absorbed by a fixed mass of biological tissue, that attempts to account for the different biological damage potential of different types of ionizing radiation...
of radiation to the whole-body - Effective dose (radiology)Effective dose (radiology)The effective dose in radiology is the expected incidental radiation dose to part of the body or tissue, as the result of a standard successful imaging procedure, which will have the same effective risk or danger to the whole-organism or whole-body as the same equivalent dose of radiation to the...
the expected incidental radiation dose to part of the body or tissue, as the result of a standard successful imaging procedure, which will have the same effective risk or danger to the whole-organism or whole-body as the same equivalent doseEquivalent doseThe equivalent absorbed radiation dose, usually shortened to equivalent dose, is a computed average measure of the radiation absorbed by a fixed mass of biological tissue, that attempts to account for the different biological damage potential of different types of ionizing radiation...
of radiation to the whole body
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- Biologically effective doseBiologically effective doseThe Biologically effective dose is the dose of radiation or a drug that must be delivered to a target organ or tissue, to have a desired therapeutic effect...
the effective dose of radiation or a drug that must be delivered to a target organ or tissue to have a desired therapeutic effect - Total effective dose equivalentTotal effective dose equivalentThe Total effective dose equivalent is a dosimetric quantity used for comparing the health effects of radiation to the human body.TEDE is used by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission to define dose limits for occupationally exposed individuals and members of the general public...
(TEDE) the sum of the effective dose (for external exposures) and the committed effective dose equivalent (for internal exposures)