"Linear Energy Transfer" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Rate of energy dissipation along the path of charged particles. In radiobiology and health physics, exposure is measured in kiloelectron volts per micrometer of tissue (keV/micrometer T).
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D018499
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.154.240.400 G02.111.255.400 G02.216.400
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Image processing tools for alpha-particle track-etch dosimetry. Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2003 Jun; 18(3):425-30.