MBq\text{MBq}

megabecquerel

Radioactivityexact by definition

The megabecquerel is one million decays per second, and it is the usual unit for administered doses in nuclear medicine. A typical technetium-99m bone scan uses a few hundred to about 1100 MBq. The factor of 1e6 is exact, being an SI prefix.

1 MBq\text{MBq} 1,000,000 Bq\text{Bq}

One megabecquerel in every radioactivity unit

1,000,000,000millibecquerel (mBq)
60,000,000disintegration per minute (dpm)
27,027,000picocurie (pCi)
1,000,000becquerel (Bq)
1,000,000disintegration per second (dps)
27,027nanocurie (nCi)
1,000kilobecquerel (kBq)
27.027microcurie (μCi)
1megabecquerel (MBq)this unit
1rutherford (Rd)
0.027027millicurie (mCi)
0.001gigabecquerel (GBq)
0.000027027curie (Ci)
0.000001terabecquerel (TBq)
2.70270e-08kilocurie (kCi)
1.00000e-09petabecquerel (PBq)
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