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KINETICS OF INGESTED (222)RN IN HUMANS DETERMINED FROM MEASUREMENTS WITH (133)XE
Citation:
Correia, J., S. Weise, R. Callahan, AND H. Strauss. KINETICS OF INGESTED (222)RN IN HUMANS DETERMINED FROM MEASUREMENTS WITH (133)XE. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/1-87/013 (NTIS PB88145297), 1987.
Description:
The problem of naturally occurring 222-radon contamination has received a great deal of public and scientific attention over the past several years, and has become a major public health issue worldwide. The purpose of the work reported in the document was to provide information about the behavior of ingested 222-radon in the digestive system and other organs of the human body. 133-Xenon, an element which behaves in the same manner as 222-radon in tissue and differs only in tissue solubility, was used in studies on human subjects. The tissue solubility differences were accounted for by using the tissue/blood partition coefficients of the two gases.