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THE International Commission on Radiological Protection (I.C.R.P.) model for the human lung involves calculation of pulmonary contamination by measurement of insoluble atmospheric radioelements. Recently, Rundo et al.2 measured zirconium-95 and niobium-95 in several human lungs. He modified the I.C.R.P. coefficients in order to obtain agreement between the theoretical model and the experimental results.
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DUTAILLY, L., MARTIN, J., ROBERT, J. et al. Zirconium-95 and Niobium-95 in Human Lungs and Atmospheric Dust during 1963. Nature 212, 702–703 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/212702a0
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