04977 IUPAC Gold Book - quality factor 10.1351/goldbook.Q04977 Q04977 current 1 The linear-energy-transfer dependent factor by which absorbed dose is multiplied to obtain dose equivalent. absorbed dose https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/A00031 dose equivalent https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/D01841 linear-energy-transfer https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/L03550 PAC, 1982, 54, 1533. 'Glossary of terms used in nuclear analytical chemistry (Provisional)' on page 1549 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac198254081533) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/Q04977/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/Q04977/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/Q04977/plain Citation: 'quality factor' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.Q04977 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-19T05:04:06+00:00