Aspects of the dosimetry of alpha-emitting radionuclides in bone with particular emphasis of 226Ra and 239Pu
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 22 (1) , 36-46
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/22/1/005
Abstract
Results are presented for average dose rates to tissues close to endosteal surfaces and to haematopoietic bone marrow from thin plane sources of radionuclides buried to different depths in bone and emitting alpha -particles with energies in the range 3-8 MeV. These results are used to demonstrate that, on an activity basis, 239Pu is unlikely to be more than fifteen times as toxic as 226Ra with respect to osteosarcoma and leukaemia.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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