Difference between revisions of "High linear energy transfer radiation"

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Radiation with a high [[linear energy transfer]]; for example, α particles, heavy ions, and interaction products of fast neutrons. The ionisation density along the trajectory is high.
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Radiation with capacity, by its own or by the secondary radiations it generates, of linear energy transfer higher than around 10 keV μm<sup>-1</sup>. Normally high LET radiation is assumed to include protons, neutrons and alpha particles (or other particles of similar or greater mass) except for protons having energies greater than around 4 MeV.
  
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[[ICRP Publication 118]], 2012
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See also [[low linear energy transfer radiation]] and [[linear energy transfer]].
  
 
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Radiation with capacity, by its own or by the secondary radiations it generates, of linear energy transfer higher than around 10 keV μm-1. Normally high LET radiation is assumed to include protons, neutrons and alpha particles (or other particles of similar or greater mass) except for protons having energies greater than around 4 MeV.

See also low linear energy transfer radiation and linear energy transfer.

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