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    The roentgen or röntgen (/ˈrɛntɡən, -dʒən, ˈrʌnt-/; symbol R) is a legacy unit of measurement for the exposure of X-rays and gamma rays, and is defined...
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  • The roentgen equivalent man (rem) is a CGS unit of equivalent dose, effective dose, and committed dose, which are dose measures used to estimate potential...
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  • equivalent SI unit submultiple, the centigray (symbol cGy), is widely used to report absorbed doses within radiotherapy. The roentgen, used to quantify...
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  • equivalent to the legacy roentgen unit of radiation exposure, but there is a difference in the definition of these two units. The gray is defined independently...
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  • Röntgen or Roentgen may refer to: Roentgen (unit), unit of measurement for ionizing radiation, named after Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Röntgen (1845–1923)...
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    radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him. The unit of measurement roentgen was also named after him. He was born to Friedrich Conrad Röntgen...
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  • rep) is a legacy unit of absorbed dose first introduced by Herbert Parker in 1945 to replace an improper application of the roentgen unit to biological tissue...
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  • Consultation The SI unit of measure for equivalent dose is the sievert, defined as one Joule per kg. In the United States the roentgen equivalent man (rem)...
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  • hadronic to muonic cross sections Electrical resistance (R) Roentgen (unit) (R), a unit of measurement for ionizing radiation such as X-ray and gamma...
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    X-ray (redirect from Roentgen ray)
    The roentgen (R) is an obsolete traditional unit of exposure, which represented the amount of radiation required to create one electrostatic unit of charge...
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