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The equivalent dose is a measure of the radiation dose to tissue where an attempt has been made to allow for the different relative biological effect of different types of radiation. Equivalent dose is therefore a less fundamental quantity than radiation absorbed dose, but is more biologically significant. Equivalent dose has units of sieverts.

Equivalent dose (E) is calculated by treating the absobed dose (D) with a radiation type dependent quality factor (Q):

E = DQ

where Q is 1 for x-rays, gamma-rays and beta-particles, but higher for protons, neutrons, alpha particles etc.

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