Measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source

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n. measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source

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dosimetry \do*sim"e*try\, n. [NL. dosis dose + -metry.] (Med.) Measurement of doses; specif., a system of therapeutics which uses but few remedies, mostly alkaloids, and gives them in doses fixed by certain rules. -- Do`si*met"ric , a. -- Do*sim"e*trist ...

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Whilst Dosimetry in its original sense is the measurement of the absorbed dose delivered by ionizing radiation, the term is better known as a scientific sub-specialty in the fields of health physics and medical physics , where it is the calculation and ...

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n. the measurement of doses, especially of ionizing radiation