Dose conversion factors for intakes of selected radionuclides by infants and adults

Since an earlier report on this subject was written in 1979, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has completed its review of its recommended models for internal dosimetry and has published extensive data used in their calculations of annual limits on intake (ALI) for workers. In addition, age dependent models to calculate doses for several elements have been improved, new dosimetry factors have become available in computer readable form, several papers describing the derivation and use of dose conversion factors have been published and errors and omissions in the tables included with the 1979 report have been identified. It was therefore decided to rewrite this report, taking into account the ICRP recommended models and model parameters, the new dosimetry factors, and the new age dependent models. As in the previous report, the committed effective dose equivalent and the committed dose equivalent to the organ receiving the highest dose per unit intake by Reference Infant (the one year old) and Reference Man are given. The revised format of the tables containing this information should make this report considerably easier to use than was the original