Terms to describe energy level

• Dose - amount of energy transferred

  • rad - old unit
  • gray (Gy) - new unit
    • very large dose = 1 million rad = 10kGy
    • or 1kGy = 100,000 rad
  • 1 chest X-ray = .01 rad
  • natural background = 0.1 rad/year

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