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Basis and implications of the CAP88 age-specific dose coefficients
Richard Leggett1, Patricia Scofield, Keith Eckerman
1Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
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.
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