36.1.Definitions [1,2]
It would be desirable if legal protection limits could be expressed in directly measurable physical quantities.However,this does not allow to quantify biological effects of the exposure of the human body to ionizing radiation.
For this reason,protection limits are expressed in terms of so-called protection quantities which,although calculable,are not measurable.Protection quantities quantify the extent of exposure of the human body to ionizing radiation from both whole and partial body external irradiation and from intakes of radionuclides.