The collective effective dose is the product of the mean effective dose for a population and the number of individuals; or the sum of all individual effective doses in the population of concern.

In radiology dose is the term for radiation related to the amount of energy absorbed in matter (for example absorbed dose, acute dose, effective dose, external dose, personal dose and committed dose equivalent). The SI standard unit of radiation dose is the gray.
Dose refers also to the amount of medication, radiopharmaceutical or contrast medium used in diagnostic imaging.

See also Deep Dose Equivalent, Critical Organ, Eye Dose Equivalent, Collective Effective Dose, Medical Internal Radiation Dose Committee, and Chronic Dose.