Appropriate Use of Effective Dose in Radiation Protection and Risk Assessment

• Published in: Health physics (1958) Vol. 113; no. 2; p. 102
• Main Authors: Fisher, Darrell R, Fahey, Frederic H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.08.2017
• Subjects: Biological Assay - standards; Humans; Incidence; Internationality; Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced - epidemiology; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Prevalence; Proportional Hazards Models; Radiation; Radiation Dosage; Radiation Exposure - statistics & numerical data; Radiation Monitoring - standards; Radiation Protection - standards; Relative Biological Effectiveness; Risk Assessment - standards; Survival Rate; Whole-Body Counting - standards
• ISSN: 1538-5159
• DOI: 10.1097/HP.0000000000000674

Effective dose was introduced by the ICRP for the single, over-arching purpose of setting limits for radiation protection. Effective dose is a derived quantity or mathematical construct and not a physical, measurable quantity. The formula for calculating effective dose to a reference model incorpora...