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.

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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.

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

Actinides

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

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.

Acute radiation syndrome (ars)

Medical devices; Radiology equipment

The acute radiation syndrome (ars) is also known as radiation sickness. A person exposed to radiation will develop ars only if the radiation dose was high, penetrating (e.g., x-rays or gamma rays), ...