BETSE:
body radiation which te 300 mr per week and 50 mr per day.
Now suppose
you bad equilibrium of Sr” in your benes, you oan ask hov many nilacuries
of Sr” you need to have in all of your bones in order to get that sane
power of dose.
This is a very sinple matter of arithustig and I believe
that thie ia sound because the particles which finally do the damage are
electrons in either case so they are particles ef low specific ionization,
and if you have untform distribution, I suppose you should get about the
right number, except for one thing, namely, thet your bone is probably
not the most sensitive organ which you have in your body and the tolerance
dose is meant for the most sensitive part of your body. I think you get
anenia firet.
If you assume the same tolerance dose of $0 mr per day, then
this figure ought to be 10 microcuries of Sr” throughout your bones.
Didn't you have to take the bone volume in this eslculatioa!
BETHE:
In this calculation ve assume the usual 7 kilograms of bong and we said
that the ionization, the number of ions falling, {# in proportion to the
mags, vnich is very nearly correct.
COMAR:
I mst point out that one figure has been used go from what you would get
for even distribution compared to what you would actually get from the
particulate distribution in bone, and this {s a value of ten. In other
words, this is not «a good value but 1t is the best we have so we vould
say that the Sr would te deposited mot in all the bose but in about
1/10th of the bone of the body.
I suppose that this depends again upon the age of the individual.
‘The
way we wanted to proceed, J think is very close to what you have nov been
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