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Absorbed dose
Abundance
Activity
Addition
ALARA
Alpha decay
Ambient dose equivalent
Ampere
Annihilation
Antimatter
Area
Arithmetic
Atom
Attenuation coefficient
Auger effect
Banana equivalent activity
Banana equivalent dose
Barn
Base units
Becquerel
Beta decay
Bremsstrahlung
Buildup factor
Capacitance
Celsius
Centimeter
Characteristic radiation
Charge
Collective effective dose
Committed effective dose
Committed equivalent dose
Compton effect
Constant (atomic clock)
Constant (Avogadro)
Constant (Boltzmann)
Constant (electron charge)
Constant (Planck)
Constant (speed of light)
Cosmic radiation
Cosmogenic radionuclide
Coulomb
Cross section
Curie
Current
Decay constant
Density
Detector (gas amplification)
Detector (ionization)
Detector (photographic emulsion)
Detector (scintillation)
Directional dose equivalent
Division
Dose constraint
Dose conversion coefficient
Effective dose
Electromagnetic radiation
Electron
Electron capture
Electronvolt
Energy
Energy (electrical)
Energy (mass)
Energy (mechanical)
Energy (photon)
Energy (thermal)
Equivalent dose
Erg
Error propagation
Exponentiation
Exposure
Farad
Fluence
Flux
Frequency
Gamma decay
Gram
Gray
Half-life
Half-value thickness
Heat
Hertz
ICRU anthropomorphic phantom
ICRU slab
ICRU sphere
Internal conversion
Irradiation geometry
Joule
Justification
Kelvin
Kerma
Kerma-rate constant
Kilogram
Length
LET
Limitation
Limiting dose quantity
Logarithm taking
manSievert
Mass
Mass defect
Matter
Mean value
Meter
Mole
Molecule
Multiplication
Natural decay chain
Neutrino
Neutron
Neutron activation
Nuclear decay
Nuclear fission
Nuclear fission (natural reactor)
Nuclear fusion
Nucleosynthesis
Number
Numeral
Ohm
Operational dose quantity
Optimization
Pair production
Personal dose equivalent
Person-rem
Photoelectric effect
Photon
Physical dose quantity
Pixel
Positron
Potential
Power
Prefix
Primordial radionuclide
Proton
Quality factor
Quantity
Rad
Radiation weighting factor
Radiotoxicity equivalent
Range
RBE
Reference man
Rem
Resistance
Röntgen
Root taking
Scattering
Second
Sievert
Square law
Standard deviation
statCoulomb
Statistics
statVolt
Stochastic variable
Stopping power
Subtraction
Temperature
Time
Tissue weighting factor
Transmission
Unit
Velocity
Volt
Volume
Voxel
Watt
Wavelength
X-radiation
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