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Reading Assignment: Section 5.2

Please answer the following questions from your reading:

1. Why is the Quality Factor (Q) a more usable concept than Relative Biological Effectiveness (RBE) for occupational health physics work?

2. Why do you think the Q rises with LET?  Why do you think it falls again above a certain value (about 100 keV/micrometer)?

 

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