# Nuclide record linear-energy-transfer (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/linear-energy-transfer/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  nuclide:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "linear-energy-transfer" ;
  schema:name "Linear energy transfer (LET)"@en ;
  schema:description "A measure of how densely a particle of radiation deposits its energy as it travels through tissue. Alpha particles dump their energy in a short, dense burst; beta particles and gamma rays spread it thinly over a much longer track."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/terms/linear-energy-transfer/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml1122/ml11229a666.pdf>, <https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/linear-energy-transfer> ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/terms/relative-biological-effectiveness/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/equivalent-dose/>, <https://nuclide.cc/terms/alpha-vs-beta/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/lu-177/> ;
  nuclide:technologies <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/targeted-alpha-therapy/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/>, <https://nuclide.cc/technologies/auger-electron-therapy/> .