An equivalent dose as a dosimetric criterion for acute affection by radiation of different quality

The notion of (a generalized equivalent dose) was introduced in order to use an equivalent dose as a dosimetric criterion for the estimation of acute exposure to densely ionizing radiation. The generalized quality coefficients that were used to quantity a generalized equivalent dose depended on LET, and with γ/neutron radiation, on neutron energy. Several possible LET functions of the generalized quality coefficients were chosen and mean quality coefficients were transformed, depending on netron energy, and estimated for actual neutron energy distributions, used in radiological experiments, with due regard for the alteration in the neutron spectrum with the body depth