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Answer to Question #4875 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Historical Issues/Applications The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
I would like to know why HT is used as a symbol for equivalent dose and where the term came from.
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The term equivalent dose used in International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) Publication 60 is a replacement of the previous term dose equivalent originally defined in ICRP Publication 26 and given by the arbitrary symbol HT for a particular target organ or tissue T by the equation for a particular radiation type:
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