[Morphometric research in determining the absorbed dose in the lungs formed from aspirated radionuclides]

Macro- and microtopography of the distribution of aspirated colloidal 144CeF3 in autographs of rabbit lung total sections were examined with the help of a monitoring-measuring device "Videoplan" and microcomputer. Quantitative assessment of photoemulsion-blackening areas at the site of radionuclide concentration has confirmed that aspirated radionuclides are distributed in the lungs according to the same laws as nonradioactive aerosols: the relation of total microvolumes of actually irradiated pulmonary tissue to the entire lung volume long after radionuclide entry is shown; a possibility to use these data for determination of an actually absorbed dose in microvolumes of pulmonary tissue during aspiration of radionuclides is considered.