Table 3.

Selection of source tissues and organs in the computational phantoms used to model radionuclide sources within circulating blood of the adult male or female.

Blood sources - ICRP publication 89			Blood sources - present study
Organ or tissue	Male (%)	Female (%)	Organ or tissue in phantom	Male (%)	Female (%)
Fat	5.00	8.51	Residual soft tissues	46.90	46.90
Brain	1.20	1.20	Brain	1.20	1.20
Stomach/esophagus	1.00	1.00	Small intestine wall	3.80	3.80
Small intestine	3.80	3.80	Colon	2.20	2.20
Colon	2.20	2.20	Heart content	9.00	9.00
Right heart content	4.50	4.50	Heart wall	LOO	LOO
Left heart content	4.50	4.50	Kidneys	2.00	2.00
Coronary tissue	1.00	1.00	Liver	10.00	10.00
Kidneys	2.00	2.00	Lungs	12.50	12.50
Liver	10.00	10.00	Skeleton	7.00	7.00
Pulmonary tissues	10.50	10.50	Skin	3.00	3.00
Bronchial tissues	2.00	2.00	Spleen	1.40	1.40
Skeletal muscle	14.00	10.51
Pancreas	0.60	0.60
Skeleton
Red marrow	4.00	4.00
Trabecular bone	1.20	1.20
Cortical bone	0.80	0.80
Other skeleton	1.00	LOO
Skin	3.00	3.00
Spleen	1.40	1.40
Thyroid	0.06	0.06
Lymph nodes	0.20	0.20
Gonads	0.04	0.02
Adrenals	0.06	0.06
Urinary bladder	0.02	0.02
All other tissues	1.92	1.92
Aorta and large veins	6.00	6.00
Large veins	18.00	18.00
	100.00	100.00		100.00	100.00