A factor that is used to express the relative amount of biological change caused by a unit of energy deposited by a particular type of ionizing radiation into a specific part of the body. The RBE is complex and organ-specific. Due to its complexity, a simple parameter, called the quality factor, is applied to different types of radiation as a matter of regulatory practice for the purpose of estimating biological damage and the resulting cancer risk.
An adjustment factor used to qualify an absorbed dose to account for its relative potential to do damage in biologic tissues. RBE is standardized to effects caused by x rays of a standard energy.
a factor that measures the relative effectiveness of various kinds of radiation in causing damage. It is complex and organ-specific. Due to its complexity, a simple parameter, called the quality factor, is used in regulatory practice.
for a particular living organism or part of an organism, the ratio of the absorbed dose of a reference radiation that produces a specified biological effect to the absorbed dose of the radiation of interest that produces the same biological effect.
A factor used to compare the biological effectiveness of different types of ionizing radiation. It is the inverse ratio of the amount of absorbed radiation, required to produce a given effect, to a standard (or reference) radiation required to produce the same effect.
(DOD) The ratio of the number of rads of gamma (or X) radiation of a certain energy which will produce a specified biological effect to the number of rads of another radiation required to produce the same effect is the relative biological effectiveness of the latter radiation.