Basis and implications of the CAP88 age-specific dose coefficients

Richard Leggett, Patricia Scofield, Keith Eckerman

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Abstract

Recent versions of CAP88 incorporate age-specific dose coefficients based on biokinetic and dosimetric models applied in Federal Guidance Report 13, "Cancer Risk Coefficients for Environmental Exposure to Radionuclides." With a few exceptions the models are those recommended in a series of reports by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) on estimation of doses to the public from environmental radionuclides. This paper describes the basis for the ICRP's age-specific biokinetic and dosimetric models and examines differences with age in dose coefficients derived from those models.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)S149-S157
JournalHealth Physics
Volume105
Issue numberSUPPL.2
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2013

Keywords

  • Biological factors
  • Dose assessment
  • Environmental
  • Modeling
  • Operational topics

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