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Radiation Effects: Time-Dose (ICRP60 – 1991)
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Deterministic:
threshold for effect
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below, no effect;
above, certainty, and severity increases with dose. Acute and
late effects, clinically attributable in the exposed individual.
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Stochastic:
probability of effect related to dose, down to zero
(?) dose. Expressed after a latency period, epidemiologically
attributable in large populations.