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Abstract

The dosimetric human respiratory tract model given in ICRP Publication 66 and ICRP Vol. 32 is briefly described in this paper. The associated home-written computer programs for calculations of radiation dose from radon and its short-lived progeny are presented, together with some representative results.

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  1. Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, R. Domanovic 12, Kragujevac, Serbia

    D. Nikezic

  2. Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P. R. China

    K. N. Yu

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Nikezic, D., Yu, K.N. Dosimetric model of human lung and associated computer program. Indian J Phys 83, 759–775 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12648-009-0034-y

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