Dosimetry
![External radiation protection dose quantities in SI units](/Images/godic/202501/09/Dose_quantities_and_units1129.png")
![Graphic showing relationship of SI radiation dose units](/Images/godic/202501/09/SI_Radiation_dose_units1129.png")
Whilst Dosimetry in its original sense is the measurement of the absorbed dose delivered by ionizing radiation, the term is better known as a scientific sub-specialty in the fields of health physics and medical physics, where it is the calculation and assessment of the radiation dose received by the human body.