Determination of the identity of a substance or of the constituent parts of a compound. Qualitative analysis is the identification...

Surgical removal of a limb or appendage, such as a finger, hand, arm, toe, or leg. An amputation is necessary...

Elevation of the temperature of the whole body.  

A radiation-measuring device used by national and international calibration laboratories to provide exposure calibrations of ion chambers for use in...

The intrinsic angular momentum of an elementary particle or of a nucleus.  

In hyperthermia treatment, the rate of absorption of heat energy per unit mass of tissue in units of W/kg.  

The number used to describe the relative contributions to a detected signal of the true signal and random superimposed signals...

A unit of dose equivalent. The sievert has idential units to the gray and is arrived at by multiplying the...

Techniques in which the image is built from successive point positions in the object.  

Technique in which the image of an object is built up from successive planes in the object. In various schemes,...