Skip Navigation


Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on January 8, 2007
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2006 122(1-4):534-536; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl493
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
122/1-4/534    most recent
ncl493v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lau, B. M. F.
Right arrow Articles by Yu, K. N.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Lau, B. M. F.
Right arrow Articles by Yu, K. N.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Killing of target cells due to radon progeny in the human lung

B. M. F. Lau1, D. Nikezic1,2 and K. N. Yu1,*

1 Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
2 Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac R. Domanovic 12, 34000 Kragujevac, Serbia and Montenegro

* Corresponding author: peter.yu{at}cityu.edu.hk


  Abstract

The dose conversion coefficient (DCC) is used to assess the risk due to inhaled radon progeny in the human lung. The present work uses the microdosimetric approach and determines the linear energy transfer in the target cell nuclei. Killing of target cells was also taken into account through an effect-specific track length model. To focus on the relevant part of the absorbed dose in the cell nuclei, the absorbed dose, which causes cell-killing is discarded in the final calculations of the DCC. Following this approach, the calculated DCC has become 3.4 mSv WLM–1 which is very close to the epidemiologically derived value of ~4 mSv WLM–1.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?




Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.