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Published on: September 4, 2017
Age and sex specific population doses (SED (somatic effective dose equivalent) and GSD (genetically significant dose
1University of Nijmegen, Department of Health Physics, The Netherlands.
Abstract:
Age- and sex-specific data were obtained concerning nuclear medicine procedures performed in The Netherlands in 1984. The average annual per capita procedure frequency amounted to 0.011. Using recent organ dose data for a large number of common radiopharmaceuticals (ICRP, Publ. 52/53, 1987) the somatic effective dose equivalent (SED) and the genetically significant dose equivalent (GSD) were calculated. The collective SED yielded 575 person-Sv per annum. The annual per capita SED was 40 microSv. The Genetically Significant Dose turned out to be approximately 3.2 microSv per person per year.
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