Units of Dose Equivalent
Description
Examples
Dose equivalence has the dimension dose equivalent radioactive energy per mass. The SI derived unit of dose equivalence is the sievert, which is defined as a joule of dose equivalent radiation per kilogram.
Maple knows the units of dose equivalent listed in the following table.
Name
Symbols
Context
Alternate Spellings
Prefixes
sievert
Sv
SI *
sieverts
SI
rem
radiation *
rems
An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively. Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, rem[radiation] or Sv[SI]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, rem or Sv.
The unit of dose equivalent is defined as follows.
A rem is defined as 1100 sievert.
convert⁡sievert,dimensions,base=true
length⁡dose_equivalent_index2⁢mass⁡dose_equivalent_indexmass⁢time⁡dose_equivalent_index2
convert⁡1,units,Sv,rem
100
See Also
convert/dimensions
convert/units
Units
Units/absorbed_dose
Units/energy
Units/Index
Units/mass
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