organ compartment biological half time for the element,

‘

Cc.

= total body compartment deposition fraction for the element,

oN

D,

= total body compartment biological half time for the element,

aM

:

fo

vig

ar

= fraction of the element from blood to organ of reference.

sid

Equation (5) a
| pplied where significant decay occurred |at the deposition
site, and not during transit or re-transit to the organ of interest.

fat

Valucs for

compartment deposition fractions and compartment half times iwere obtained [rom
4

Ki78.

Values for the remaining quantities were from ICRP59 .

The dose equivalents to a specific organ or the total body ere determined |
oi

The total. target dose equivalent was ‘obtainga by.summation of

Several important modi ficas

ea

For gach person, the source to target dose' equivalent per

:

aids

:

.

unit cumlated activity was weighted by the ratio of a standard man's body mass

5

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dosimetric results.

he
* Asi ease

.

tions to the general procedure werg made in order to compute, individual

atte ht
ge
gt

the dosimetric contributigps from all source organs.

opts ieee eee aesoe sas

ters from Ki78.

Appropriate modifications to Eq. (2), (3), and (5) were wade

to reflect this dependence.

Finally, for 905, deposition in bone, 28% of tlie

;
Figure

18 demonstrates the mean dose
'

and sex groupings.

tion.

.

:

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id

;
equivalent

from

137 Cs

.

for

;
various
.

The adolescents and persons above 50 years of age in 1957 maintaine:! the
Persons who died during this period were not ine tuded

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on
age

The residence interval was from 1957 to 1980 for this popula-

lowest dose equivalent.

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}

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source to target dose equivalent per unit cumulated activity was assumed from
:
cancellous bone and 72% from cortical
bone.

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body mass (Mi81).

set

moval rate constant for the Marshallese population was highly dependent upon

mal

In the case of 137o6, the Long term biological re-

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equivalent was determined,

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relative to the actual mean body mass during the interyal for which the dose

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