Sentence examples for sum of doses from inspiring English sources

The sievert [Sv] is a weighted sum of doses [dose equivalent] used for different types of radiation such as the mixed gamma and neutron radiation from the atomic bombings.

The blood dose was calculated as a weighted sum of doses to the largest blood-containing organs with the percentage of blood pool as weighting factor, namely lungs (12.5 %), heart (10%%), liver (10%%) and remainder (67.5 %) [ 19].

This paper suggests that effective dose could be replaced with a new quantity, 'effective risk', which, like effective dose, is a weighted sum of equivalent doses to different tissues.

The error rate was calculated using the Total Opportunities for Errors (TOE), which is the sum of all doses ordered plus all the unordered doses given [ 33].

For the bone marrow, all bony structures in the field of view were segmented and the bone marrow dose was calculated as the weighted sum of the doses to these structures with the percentage of bone marrow in these compartments as weighting factor [ 21].

To evaluate the effect of dose we compared the deviance of the basic model in which the cumulative exposure was calculated as years of exposure (ignoring dose) to a model in which the cumulative exposure was calculated as the sum of daily doses.

We used weighted doses, the sum of the γ dose plus 10 times the smaller neutron dose, to allow for the greater biological effectiveness of neutrons.

Irinotecan dose was calculated as the sum of all IRI doses (mg) and as the sum of all doses, divided by body surface area (BSA), mg m−2.

For each study subject, the total thyroid dose was the sum of the thyroid doses reconstructed for each test, taking into account age, source of drinking water and data collected in the diet questionnaire (Drozdovitch et al, 2008).

Therefore, the total dose of lumefantrine (i.e., the sum of the six doses) was used as the input dose together with all observed concentration-time data in the noncompartmental analysis of lumefantrine.

The prescribing dosage was defined as the sum total of the doses prescribed during the follow-up period, divided by exposure time.