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A monitor unit (MU) is a measure of machine output from a clinical accelerator for radiation therapy such as a linear accelerator or an orthovoltage unit. Monitor units are measured by monitor chambers, which are ionization chambers that measure the dose delivered by a beam and are built into the treatment head of radiotherapy linear accelerators.
Dose area product (DAP) is a quantity used in assessing the radiation risk from diagnostic X-ray radiography examinations and interventional procedures, like angiography.It is defined as the absorbed dose multiplied by the area irradiated, expressed in gray-centimetres squared (Gy·cm 2 [1] – sometimes the prefixed units dGy·cm 2, mGy·cm 2 or cGy·cm 2 are also used). [2]
The source measure unit (SMU), or source-measurement unit, is an electronic instrument that is capable of both sourcing and measuring at the same time. It can precisely force voltage or current and simultaneously measure precise voltage and/or current. An SMU instrument can source and sink power in all four quadrants.
Magnetic complex reluctance (SI Unit: H −1) is a measurement of a passive magnetic circuit (or element within that circuit) dependent on sinusoidal magnetomotive force (SI Unit: At·Wb −1) and sinusoidal magnetic flux (SI Unit: T·m 2), and this is determined by deriving the ratio of their complex effective amplitudes.[Ref. 1-3] = ˙ ˙ = ˙ ˙ =
A mouse unit (MU) is the amount of toxin required to kill a 20g mouse in 15 minutes via intraperitoneal injection. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Mouse units are measured by a mouse bioassay , and are commonly used in the shellfish industry when describing relative toxicities for assessing food safety levels for human consumption.
In the microscopic formulation of electromagnetism, where there is no concept of an H field, the vacuum permeability μ 0 appears directly (in the SI Maxwell's equations) as a factor that relates total electric currents and time-varying electric fields to the B field they generate.
Megavoltage X-rays are produced by linear accelerators ("linacs") operating at voltages in excess of 1000 kV (1 MV) range, and therefore have an energy in the MeV range. The voltage in this case refers to the voltage used to accelerate electrons in the linear accelerator and indicates the maximum possible energy of the photons which are subsequently produced. [1]
The derived unit m/s uses the base units of the SI system. [1] The derived unit km/h requires numerical factors to relate to the SI base units: 1000 m/km and 3600 s/h. In the cgs system, m/s is not a coherent derived unit. The numerical factor of 100 cm/m is needed to express m/s in the cgs system.