Title
Space Radiation Quality Factors and the Delta-ray Dose and Dose-Rate Effectiveness Factor
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2016
Publication Title
Health Physics
Volume
110
Issue
3
First page number:
262
Last page number:
266
Abstract
In this paper, the authors recommend that the dose and dose-rate effectiveness factor used for space radiation risk assessments should be based on a comparison of the biological effects of energetic electrons produced along a cosmic ray particles path in low fluence exposures to high dose-rate gamma-ray exposures of doses of about 1 Gy. Methods to implement this approach are described.
Repository Citation
Cucinotta, F. A.,
Alp, M.,
Cacao, E.
(2016).
Space Radiation Quality Factors and the Delta-ray Dose and Dose-Rate Effectiveness Factor.
Health Physics, 110(3),
262-266.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HP.0000000000000442