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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Phys. 2010 Oct;99(4):464–470. doi: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181cb840f

Table 4.

Calculated ratios between fission events from 239Pu, 235U and 238U, and all fission events in the bone sample.

Isotope
Parameter 239Pu 238U 235U
Plutonium burden per 1 kg of bone tissue, Bq kg−1 1.9 × 103 1.5 × 10−5 1.08 × 10−3
σi, barn 7.5 × 102 5.0 × 10−6 5.85 × 102
Ni, nuclei/kg 2.14 × 1015 3.06 × 1016 3.47 × 1013
Ki = Niσi/ΣNiσi 9.88 × 10−1 9.38 × 10−8 1.25 × 1