Radon and its daughters in vivo
Conference
·
OSTI ID:6668109
Some aspects of the behavior of radon and its short-lived daughters in vivo are described and a relationship between the radon exhalation rate and time after a meal is demonstrated. A major but short-lived postprandial increase in the exhalation rate of radon produced from skeletally-deposited radium was observed and a similar effect in exhalation rate of environmental radon by persons containing no radium was noted. Persons living in houses with elevated concentrations of radon may contain sufficient activity for its detection by external gamma-ray counting. Some of the activity observed is due to inhaled daughter-products in the chest, and some to daughter-products associated with and produced by the decay of radon throughout the body. 3 references, 8 figures. (MF)
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 6668109
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8310297-1; ON: DE84014725
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Kinetics
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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION
CLEARANCE
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DATA
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTS
EXCRETION
EXHALATION
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUIDS
GAMMA RADIATION
GASES
INFORMATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MAMMALS
MAN
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
PRIMATES
RADIATIONS
RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS
RADON
RARE GASES
VERTEBRATES
WHOLE-BODY COUNTING
Kinetics
& Toxicology-- Man
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
ANIMALS
BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION
CLEARANCE
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DATA
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTS
EXCRETION
EXHALATION
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUIDS
GAMMA RADIATION
GASES
INFORMATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
MAMMALS
MAN
NONMETALS
NUMERICAL DATA
PRIMATES
RADIATIONS
RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS
RADON
RARE GASES
VERTEBRATES
WHOLE-BODY COUNTING