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Frequency of alpha-particles from 239PuO2 in lung cells
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
|March 30, 1978
Abstract:
NCRP-Report 49 deals with the effect of 239PuO2-particles in the lung. A basic aspect in the considerations is the frequency of cells traversed by one or by more alpha-particles. The present article contains the explicit derivation of the formulae underlying the data in the NCRP-report.