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Effective Dose (E)

The summation of the products of the equivalent dose received by specified tissues or organs of the body (HT) and the appropriate tissue weighting factor (wT)--that is, E = ΣwTHT. It includes the dose from radiation sources internal and/or external to the body. For purposes of…
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