What does LET stand for?

Linear Energy Transfer

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Because radiation sources vary greatly in their energy-release profiles, biologists rank them by their linear energy transfer (LET).

Study upgrades protons' risk to DNA

The seventh Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) report, sponsored by several federal agencies, assessed and updated the health risks from low linear energy transfer (low-LET) radiation, which deposits little energy in a cell and thus tends to cause little damage.

Any dose is too high

The devices are characterized with total ionizing dose (TID) of greater than 100K Rad(Si), and single event effect (SEE) linear energy transfer (LET) of heavy ions greater than 82 MeV.

International Rectifier Introduces Radiation-Hardened, Low-Voltage ...