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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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Radioactivity
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
Radioactivity is the spontaneous transformation of an unstable atom and often results in the emission of radiation. This process is referred to as a transformation, a decay or a disintegrations of an ...
Radioactive material
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
Radioactive Material is any material that contains radioactive atoms.
Alphas
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
An alpha is a particle emitted from the nucleus of an atom, that contains two protons and two neutrons. It is identical to the nucleus of a Helium atom, without the electrons.
Roentgen (R)
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The roentgen is a unit used to measure a quantity called exposure. This can only be used to describe an amount of gamma and X-rays, and only in air. One roentgen is equal to depositing in dry air ...
Radiation absorbed dose (Rad)
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The rad is a unit used to measure a quantity called absorbed dose. This relates to the amount of energy actually absorbed in some material, and is used for any type of radiation and any material. One ...
Roentgen equivalent man (Rem)
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The rem is a unit used to derive a quantity called equivalent dose. This relates the absorbed dose in human tissue to the effective biological damage of the radiation. Not all radiation has the same ...
Curie (Ci)
Medical devices; Radiology equipment
The curie is a unit used to measure a radioactivity. One curie is that quantity of a radioactive material that will have 37,000,000,000 transformations in one second. Often radioactivity is expressed ...
