Across
- 2. The medical use of ionizing radiation to treat diseases like cancer.
- 5. Biological damage sustained by living organisms directly as a consequence of exposure.
- 7. Energy traveling through space; used in imaging and therapy.
- 9. The official SI unit of absorbed radiation dose.
- 10. An older unit for dose equivalent, meant to express relative risk of biological effects.
Down
- 1. Radiation effects that are passed on to future generations.
- 3. A historical acronym representing a unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation.
- 4. A scan utilizing radioactive tracers to map metabolic processes.
- 6. A type of high-energy electromagnetic radiation used in both diagnostic imaging and therapy.
- 8. The amount of radiation energy absorbed per unit of mass.