[The equivalent dose as a dosimetric criterion of acute radiation injury by radiations of various quality. Energy dependence of generalized coefficients of the quality of neutrons].

The notion of "a generalized equivalent dose" was introduced in order to use an equivalent dose as a dosimetric criterion for the estimation of acute exposure to densely ionizing radiation. The generalized quality coefficients that were used to quantify a generalized equivalent dose depended on LET, and with gamma/neutron radiation, on neutron energy. Several possible LET functions of the generalized quality coefficients were chosen and mean quality coefficients were transformed, depending on neutron energy, and estimated for actual neutron energy distributions, used in radiobiological experiments, with due regard for the alteration in the neutron spectrum with the body depth.