Re: The "right" answer

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

By "average" I assume that was the average doses to

the thyroid.  Therefore, the tissue weighting factors

are not involved.



--- Ted de Castro <tdc@xrayted.com> wrote:

> Depends on how you average the dose!  Those

> "average" doses that give

> numbers in the microrem for dental exposures take an

> exposure to the jaw

> and average it over the whole body.  This method can

> ONLY be true if

> dose response over the whole body is exactly linear

> all the way down to

> zero - thus LNTH.  Not much different than

> population dose in person

> rem!

> 

. . .





=====

-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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