The best route may be for you to find the intake-to-dose conversion factors (DCF) you need in a published compendium. If the ICRP 60 based DCFs are suitable for your application, I suggest you take a look at the ICRP Database of Dose Coefficients, which is available on CDROM. You can find out additional information about this reasonably priced resource at
www.elsevier.com/locate/series/icrpcd
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* Thomas La Bone *
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* 803-952-9535 *
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Kevin Creed <creed@humboldt.edu> Sent by: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
05/13/2003 10:34 AM
Please respond to Kevin Creed
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
cc: Luke George <tlg2@humboldt.edu>
Subject: respiratory tract dose
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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