respiratory tract dose

[Kevin Creed <creed@humboldt.edu>]

Help, I'm new to Radsafe and an IH.   I am also the RSO and must work out a 

dose estimation for a license amendment.  The hypothetical scenario is 

inhalation of 3.75 microcuries of Scandium 46 (1120.5 KeV) adsorbed onto 

airborne smoke particles.  I have checked out Cember's Intro to Health 

Physics (1st ed.) and read Chapter 11, Internal Rad' Protection.  The book 

refers to ICRP's two compartment lung model for a similar problem but does 

not supply the equation(s).  I have put in interlibrary loan requests for 

the specific Health Physics issues which address this but I don't know if I 

will receive them in time.

	Would one of you kind soles please provide me with the necessary equations 

and any constants which I may need?   I would like to work out the problem 

myself to further my rad' knowledge.  My e-mail 

is:  creed@humboldt.edu,   fax  (707) 826-5703,  phone  (707) 826-3356.

Thank you in advance.



Kevin Creed

R. Kevin Creed

Director/RSO

Environmental Health & Safety

Humboldt State University



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