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Possible Approach to Modifying the Formula for Calculating the Effective Dose

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The purpose of this work is to provide justification for introducing a dependence on the age of an individual at the moment of irradiation into the definition of the effective dose and to estimate the numerical values of the age-weighting coefficients. A modified approach to defining the effective dose, taking account of the age at the moment of irradiation, is proposed. The numerical values of the age-weighting coefficients are determined using the basic models for extrapolating radiation risk for two different populations: the Russian population and part of the US population.

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  1. Institute of Industrial Ecology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

    M. V. Zhukovskii & A. V. Pavlyuk

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Zhukovskii, M.V., Pavlyuk, A.V. Possible Approach to Modifying the Formula for Calculating the Effective Dose. Atomic Energy 92, 448–450 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019959814006

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