Roentgen equivalent man has been defined since 1976 as equal to 0.01 sievert, which is the more commonly used SI unit outside the United States. A number of earlier definitions going back to 1945 were derived from the roentgen unit, which was named after Wilhelm Röntgen, a German scientist who discovered X-rays. The acronym is now a misleading historical artifact, since 1 roentgen actually deposits about 0.96 rem in soft biological tissue, when all weighting factors equal unity. Older units of rem following other definitions are up to 17% smaller than the modern rem. One rem carries with it a 0.05% chance of
Roentgen Stories Roentgen Stories Roentgen Stories is a DVD collective of four promotional videos (PVs) by popular Japanese rock vocalist Hyde. Released November 3, 2004 by Ki/oon Records and Haunted Records. It features the PVs of the three singles and additional bonus music video. All songs are from his first solo album, Roentgen. The order the videos are arranged on the DVD are coincidentally the order in which they were released. The videos are meant to be watched in a series, so that the four together tell a story, with prevailing themes of life and death and the mingling of the two.