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relative biologic effectiveness

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relative biologic effectiveness (RBE)
[rel′ətiv]
Etymology: L, relatio
a measure of the cell-killing ability of a particular radiation compared with that of 250 keV x-rays. The ratio of the number of cells killed with the test radiation over the number killed with the 250 keV radiation is the RBE.


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