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To: UpAllNight
The multiplier is apparently taken into account in the Utah graph above. Easiest thing here now is to look for another place to settle this.

Another source has everything in the same units- mrem:
http://www.uvm.edu/~radsafe/?Page=xray.analytical.html

Background and other dose levels;

* 295 mrem (millirem) - average background dose in U.S.
* 300 mrem - average dose from 1 abdomen radiograph
* 200 mrem - average dose from 1 dental radiograph
* 20 mrem - average dose from 1 chest radiograph
* 3 mrem - average dose to UVM personnel in 1 year
74 posted on 12/22/2006 11:45:31 AM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: AFPhys

--The multiplier is apparently taken into account in the Utah graph above.--

No. The Utah data is ESE in mR. No biological damage multipliers are used. It is strictly used to compare machine output.


75 posted on 12/22/2006 12:07:20 PM PST by UpAllNight
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To: AFPhys

NRC:

Effective dose equivalent (HE) is the sum of the products of the dose equivalent to the organ or tissue (HT) and the weighting factors (WT) applicable to each of the body organs or tissues that are irradiated (HE = ÓWTHT).


76 posted on 12/22/2006 12:15:35 PM PST by UpAllNight
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