Organ dose estimates for the Japanese atomic-bomb survivors

Technical Report · Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6630551· OSTI ID:6630551

Kerr, G. D.

Recent studies concerning radiation risks to man by the Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation have emphasized the need for estimates of dose to organs of the Japanese atomic-bomb survivors. Shielding of internal organs by the body has been investigated for fission-weapon gamma rays and neutrons, and ratios of mean absorbed dose in a number of organs to survivors' T65D assignments of tissue kerma in air are provided for adults. Ratios of mean absorbed dose to tissue kerma in air are provided also for the thyroid and active bone marrow of juveniles. These organ dose estimates for juveniles are of interest in studies of radiation risks due to an elevated incidence of leukemia and thyroid cancer in survivors exposed as children compared to survivors exposed as adults.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 6630551
• Report Number(s): ORNL-5436; TRN: 79-002301
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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A-BOMB SURVIVORS
GAMMA DOSIMETRY
NEUTRON DOSIMETRY
RADIATION DOSES
ADRENAL GLANDS
BLADDER
BONE MARROW
FETUSES
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
HEART
KIDNEYS
LIVER
LUNGS
MAMMARY GLANDS
OVARIES
PANCREAS
SPLEEN
STOMACH
TESTES
THYMUS
THYROID
UTERUS
ADULTS
ATMOSPHERIC EXPLOSIONS
CHILDREN
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
FISSION PRODUCTS
GAMMA RADIATION
JAPAN
NEUTRONS
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
ANIMALS
ASIA
BARYONS
BODY
CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
DOSES
DOSIMETRY
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENDOCRINE GLANDS
EXPLOSIONS
FEMALE GENITALS
FERMIONS
GLANDS
GONADS
HADRONS
HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM
IONIZING RADIATIONS
ISOTOPES
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM
MALE GENITALS
MAMMALS
MAN
NUCLEONS
ORGANS
PRIMATES
RADIATIONS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
TISSUES
URINARY TRACT
VERTEBRATES
WEAPONS
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