| Quality Assurance: Planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a facility, structure, system or component will perform satisfactorily and safely in service. Quality Control: Actions necessary to control and verify that a material, process or product meets specified requirements. Quality Factor (QF): A numerical factor describing the average effectiveness of a particular type or energy of radiation in producing biological effects on humans. The multiplier assigned to a given type of radiation. Multiply the Q x rad to determine rem. A factor that converts the absorbed dose (rad or gray) to biological damage/dose equivalent (rems). |
