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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on July 4, 2006
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2007 123(1):36-40; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncl081
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A comparative study of body potassium content in males and females at Kalpakkam (India)

J. Thulasi Brindha*, S. Rajaram and V. Kannan

Environmental Survey Laboratory, Health Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Kalpakkam 603102, India

* Corresponding author: brindha{at}igcar.gov.in

Received March 30, 2006, amended May 17, 2006, accepted May 29, 2006


  Abstract

A group of 300 subjects of both sexes were measured for total body potassium content using a shadow shield whole-body counting system at Kalpakkam (India). The mean body potassium content for males was 1.7 ± 0.5 g kg–1 body weight and 1.5 ± 0.5 g kg–1 body weight for females. The body potassium content varies inversely with age as well as with the body weight for both the sexes. However, the total body potassium varies directly with body-build index for both males and females. The mean annual dose due to 40K for males and females was found to be 149 ± 44 and 132 ± 41 uGy, respectively.


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