International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume C
Mathematical, physical and chemical tables
Edited by E. Prince

© International Union of Crystallography 2006
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. C. ch. 10.1, p. 960

Table 10.1.3 

D. C. Creagha and S. Martinez-Carrerab

a Division of Health, Design, and Science, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, and bSan Ernesto, 6-Esc. 3, 28002 Madrid, Spain

Table 10.1.3 | top | pdf |
Quality factors (QF)

Type of radiation QF
X-rays, γ-rays, and electrons 1
Neutrons, protons, singly charged particles of rest mass not greater than one atomic mass unit of unknown energy 10
α particles and multiply charged particles 20

1 Sv = (dose in grays) × QF.