Sievert integral

The Sievert integral, named after Swedish medical physicist Rolf Sievert, is a special function commonly encountered in radiation transport calculations.

It plays a role in the sievert (symbol: Sv) unit of ionizing radiation dose in the International System of Units (SI).

Definition

$F(x,\theta )=\underset{0}{\overset{\theta }{\int }}{e}^{-x\sec (\phi )}d\phi .$

References

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External links

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