Basis and implications of the CAP88 age-specific dose coefficients

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013 · Health Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1097/HP.0b013e3182904db1· OSTI ID:1092239

Leggett, Richard Wayne ^[1]; Scofield, Patricia A ^[1]; Eckerman, Keith F ^[1]

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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 (EPA 1999). 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 the derived dose coefficients and in estimates of dose per unit exposure based on those coefficients.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Work for Others (WFO)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1092239
• Journal Information: Health Physics, Vol. 105, Issue 2; ISSN 0017-9078
• Publisher: Health Physics Society
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

biokinetics
models
age-dependent
dose coefficients