Dosimetry

Definition: Dosimetry

Dosimetry

Noun

1. Measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source.

Etymology: Dosimetry \Do*sim"e*try\, noun. [New Latin expression. dosis dose -metry.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definition: Dosimetry

Domain	Definition
Energy	The theory and application of the principles and techniques involved in the measurement and recording of ionizing radiation doses. (references)
Medicine	All the methods either of measuring directly, or of measuring indirectly and computing, absorbed dose, absorbed dose rate, exposure, exposure rate, dose equivalent, etc. and the science associated with these methods. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Dosimetry

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dosimetry involves the measurements to evaluate the doses in matteria and tissue from ionizing radiation, or radioactivity as it is populary known.

The doses are measured in gray (Gy) for matteria or Sievert (Sv) for biological tissue. The dose refers to the amount of energy or damage deposited in the matter, and should not be mistaken from the unit of radioactive activity (bequerel, Bq). The doses can verry well be measured in another place other then where the radioactive decay occurred.

The worldwide average background dose for a human being is around 3.5 mSv a year [1], mostly from cosmic radiation and natural isotopes in the earth.

There are several ways of measuring doses from ionizing radiation. Workers that come in contact with radioactive substances or use radioactivity routinely carry personell dosimeters. Those dosimeters are of such a material that they can be used in Termo Luminescence Dosimetry (TLD) or Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). In radiotherapy patient dosimeters are used to monitor the doses given to the patient. The equipment used in radiotherapy (Linear particle accelerator in external beam therapy) are routinely calibrated using ionization chambers.

After the attac on World Trade Center September 11th 2001, there has been an increasing interest in the field of Emergency Prepearedness within the field of detecting and monitoring ionizing radiation.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dosimetry."

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Crosswords: Dosimetry

Specialty definitions using "dosimetry": Personnel monitoring ♦ RADIATION-THERAPY TECHNOLOGIST. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dosimetry

Domain	Title
Books	Basic Aspects of High Energy Particle Interactions and Radiation Dosimetry (reference) Biological Effects and Dosimetry of Static and Elf Electromagnetic Fields (Ettore Majorana International Science Series. Life Sciences, Vol 19) (reference) Dosimetry of X-Ray and Gamma Ray Beams for Radiation Therapy in the Energy Range 10Kev to 50 Mev (reference) Introduction to Radiation Protection Dosimetry (reference) Nasal Toxicity and Dosimetry of Inhaled Xenobiotics: Implications for Human Health (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	American National Standard For Dosimetry (reference) Medical Dosimetry (reference) Radiation Protection Dosimetry (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Usage Frequency: Dosimetry

"Dosimetry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dosimetry" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

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Expression: Dosimetry

Expression using "dosimetry": Film Dosimetry. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dosimetry

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
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Modern Translation: Dosimetry

Language		Translations for "dosimetry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		dosimetri. (various references)

Dutch		dosimetrie. (various references)

Finnish		dosimetria, annosmittaus. (various references)

French		dosimétrie radiologique, dosimétrie. (various references)

German		Dosismessung, Dosimetrie. (various references)

Greek		δοσιμετρία, δοσομετρία. (various references)

Hungarian		dozimetria. (various references)

Italian		dosimetria. (various references)

Korean		방사능측� �. (various references)

Pig Latin		osimetryday

Portuguese		dosimetria. (various references)

Spanish		dosimetría. (various references)

Swedish		dosimetri. (various references)

Vietnamese		phép đo liều lượng liều lượng học. (various references)
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Anagrams: Dosimetry

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	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-m-o-r-s-t-y"
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