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Dose Equivalent

"Dose Equivalent} (former), or \textit{Equivalent Absorbed Radiation Dose}, usually shortened to \textit{Equivalent Dose", is a computed average measure of the radiation absorbed by a fixed mass of biological tissue, that attempts to account for the different biological damage potential of different types of ionizing radiation. The equivalent dose to a tissue is found by multiplying the absorbed dose, in gray, by a dimensionless "quality factor" \(Q\), dependent upon radiation type, and by another dimensionless factor \(N\), dependent on all other pertinent factors. N depends upon the part of the body irradiated, the time and volume over which the dose was spread, even the species of the subject.

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At the point of interest in tissue, \(H = DQ\), where \(D\) is the absorbed dose and \(Q\) is the quality factor at that point.

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