In addition, it is not necessary to correct for radiation type or tissue type. The absorbed dose is sufficient. Summary Radiation is energy in the form of waves and particles that are emitted from a source. It comes in many forms. It is not necessarily a dangerous thing.
Visible light divides the electromagnetic spectrum into general regions.
1 MeV. They damage tissues by disrupting normal cellular chemistry. It only provides a first approximation of the radiobiological damage in a human. It relates the absorbed dose to the equivalent radiobiological damage in a human. It relates the equivalent dose to the effective radiobiological damage in a human. The weighting factors are unitless.