Table 6 Organ-specific absorbed dose rate coefficients, δMIRD,org,Sr, for an adult subjected to chronic intake of radiostrontium-contaminated foodstuff. Values are taken and/or adopted from Snyder et al. 52.

From: LARCalc, a tool to estimate sex- and age-specific lifetime attributable risk in populations after nuclear power plant fallout

Organ defined in LARCalc

Absorbed dose rate coefficient

δMIRD,org,Sr-90+Y-90 (mGy y−1)

δMIRD,org,Sr-89 (mGy y−1)

Bone/Skeleton

0.001052

0.000536

Red bone marrow

0.000795

0.000182

 

Effective dose rate coefficient

 

εMIRD,Sr-90+Y-90 (mSv y-1)

εMIRD,Sr-89 (mSv y-1)

Whole body

8.17E-05

2.72E-05

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