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Radiation units query

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Mark Garrett

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May 7, 1986, 10:31:05 AM5/7/86
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Can someone post some definitions of how radiation is measured.
I've heard the terms: rad, Roentgen, Curie, Rem (and maybe a
few others). What do they mean and how do they relate to
concepts like half-life and lambda (as in Poisson distribution)?

Thanks in advance,

Mark Garrett

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