Editing Equivalent dose (section)

==Future use  ==
At the ICRP 3rd International Symposium on the System of Radiological Protection in October 2015, ICRP Task Group 79 reported on the "Use of Effective Dose as a Risk-related Radiological Protection Quantity".

This included a proposal to discontinue use of equivalent dose as a separate protection quantity. This would avoid confusion between equivalent dose, effective dose and dose equivalent, and to use absorbed dose in Gy as a more appropriate quantity for limiting deterministic effects to the eye lens, skin, hands & feet.<ref>"Use of Effective Dose", John Harrison. 3rd International Symposium on the System of Radiological Protection, October 2015, Seoul.[http://www.icrp.org/docs/icrp2015/21%20John%20Harrison%202015.pdf]</ref>

These proposals will need to go through the following stages:

* Discussion within ICRP Committees
* Revision of report by Task Group
* Reconsideration by Committees and Main Commission
* Public Consultation