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[en] The National Council of Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) wound model was applied to the bioassay data from a United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries whole-body tissue donor, Case 0212. This individual was exposed to plutonium nitrate as a result of an occupational wound injury and he underwent extensive chelation treatment with Ca-DTPA. All major soft tissues and bones were collected post-mortem and radiochemically analyzed for 238Pu, 239,240Pu and 241Am. The 239,240Pu activity in the total body was estimated to be 232.0 Bq, with 80.3 Bq retained in the liver, 115.1 Bq in the skeleton and 14.3 Bq in the wound. The maximum likelihood method was used to simultaneously fit the post-treatment urinary excretion and post-mortem liver and skeleton retention data. It was demonstrated that the deposited material was predominantly a strongly retained soluble compound (nitrate) with a 22% fraction of plutonium particles. The residual intake, the amount of plutonium deposited in the wound that was not removed from the system by Ca-DTPA, was estimated to be 288 Bq. The resulting committed effective dose was 134 mSv. Accounting for plutonium eliminated in the urine during chelation therapy, the actual untreated intake was 1204 Bq, and the projected committed effective dose was 567 mSv. Hence, DTPA treatment reduced the dose by a factor of 4. (authors)
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Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncx092; Country of input: France; 33 refs.
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Radiation Protection Dosimetry; ISSN 0144-8420;
; v. 178(2); p. 160-169

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ACTINIDE COMPOUNDS, ACTINIDE NUCLEI, ACTINIDES, ALPHA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, AMERICIUM ISOTOPES, AMINO ACIDS, BODY, CARBOXYLIC ACIDS, CHELATING AGENTS, CHEMISTRY, CLEARANCE, COMPLEXES, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, DISEASES, DOSES, DRUGS, ELEMENTS, EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI, GLANDS, HEAVY ION DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, HEAVY NUCLEI, INJURIES, ISOTOPES, KINETICS, MEDICINE, METALS, NITRATES, NITROGEN COMPOUNDS, NUCLEI, ODD-EVEN NUCLEI, ORGANIC ACIDS, ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, ORGANS, OXYGEN COMPOUNDS, PLUTONIUM COMPOUNDS, PLUTONIUM ISOTOPES, RADIATION DOSES, RADIOISOTOPES, RADIOPROTECTIVE SUBSTANCES, RESPONSE MODIFYING FACTORS, SILICON 32 DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, SPONTANEOUS FISSION RADIOISOTOPES, TRANSURANIUM COMPOUNDS, TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS, YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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