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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 3.
Published in final edited form as: Health Phys. 2012 Mar;102(3):305–325. doi: 10.1097/hp.0b013e3182351660

Table 1.

Summary of dose coefficients for both Effective Dose and Organ Equivalent Dose (Sv per Bq intake) for all 21 exposure scenarios considered in this study.

Exposure
Solubility
Effective dose
Equivalent dose
30 days to lungs
Equivalent dose
30 days to RBM
Equivalent dose
30 days to thyroid
Scenario Radionuclide Intake AMAD Class fA (Sv/Bq-intake) (Sv/Bq-intake) (Sv/Bq-intake (Sv/Bq-intake)
1 Am-241 Inhal 1 µm Type M 0.0005 3.90 × 10−5 1.70 × 10−5 7.20 × 10−8
2 Am-241 Inhal 5 µm Type M 0.0005 2.70 × 10−5 1.30 × 10−5 7.40 × 10−8
3 Am-241 Inges 0.0005 2.00 × 10−7 3.50 × 10−11 1.20 × 10−9
4 Co-60 Inhal 1 µm Type M 0.10 9.60 × 10−9 1.90 × 10−8 6.60 × 10−10
5 Co-60 Inhal 1 µm Type S 0.05 2.90 × 10−3 2.20 × 10−8 6.90 × 10−10
6 Co-60 Inhal 5 µm Type M 0.10 7.10 × 10−9 1.50 × 10−8 5.60 × 19−10
7 Co-60 Inhal 5 µm Type S 0.05 1.70 × 10−8 1.70 × 10−8 5.40 × 10−10
8 Co-60 Inges 0.10 3.40 × 10−9 2.10 × 10−10 5.70 × 10−10
9 Cs-137 Inhal 1 µm Type F 1.00 4.80 × 10−9 8.00 × 10−10 8.00 × 10−10
l0 Cs-137 Inhal 5 µm Type F 1.00 6.70 × 10−9 1.10 × 10−9 1.10 × 10−9
11 Cs-137 Inges 1.00 1.30 × 10−8 2.20 × 10−9 2.30 × 10−9
12 I-131 Inhal 1 µm Type F 1.00 7.60 × 10−9 5.70 × 10−11 1.40 × 10−7
12 I-131 Inhal 5 µm Type F 1.00 1.10 × 10−8 7.80 × 10−11 2.00 × 10−7
14 I-131 Inges 1.00 2.20 × 10−8 9.70 × 10−11 4.00 × 10−7
15 Ir-192 Inhal 1 µm Type F 0.01 1.80 × 10−9 4.50 × 10−10 4.50 × 10−10
16 Ir-192 Inhal 1 µm Type M 0.01 4.90 × 10−9 2.10 × 10−8 2.50 × 10−10
17 Ir-192 Inhal 1 µm Type S 0.01 6.20 × 10−9 2.40 × 10−8 2.30 × 10−10
18 Ir-192 Inhal 5 µm Type F 0.01 2.20 × 10−9 5.40 × 10−10 5.20 × 10−10
19 Ir-192 Inhal 5 µm Type M 0.01 4.10 × 10−9 1.70 × 10−8 2.20 × 10−10
20 Ir-192 Inhal 5 µm Type S 0.01 4.90 × 10−9 2.00 × 10−8 1.90 × 10−10
21 Ir-192 Inges 0.01 1.40 × 10−9 3.20 × 10−11 1.90 × 10−10