# Nuclide record equivalent-dose (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/terms/equivalent-dose/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "equivalent-dose" ;
  schema:name "Equivalent dose and effective dose (sievert)"@en ;
  schema:description "A way of converting a physical radiation dose into a single number for comparing radiation risk across different types of radiation and different organs. It is used for radiation-protection purposes, not for prescribing cancer treatment doses."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/equivalent-dose/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.icrp.org/docs/physics_icrp_found_doc_for_web_consult.pdf>, <https://icrpaedia.org/Absorbed,_Equivalent,_and_Effective_Dose> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/absorbed-dose-term/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/relative-biological-effectiveness/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/in-vivo-dosimetry/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-dosimetry/> .