Voxel-based Monte Carlo simulation of human external exposure to terrestrial gamma radiation

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Table 5

Averaged organ DCFs for male and female ICRP110 phantoms compared to values obtained from published ICRP 144 report data using the same phantom type (ICRP, 2020).

Organs	²³⁸U		²³²Th		⁴⁰K

	ICRP 144	This work	ICRP 144	This work	ICRP 144	This work
Adrenals	0.346	0.372	0.426	0.453	0.032	0.036
Brain	0.347	0.412	0.428	0.528	0.036	0.043
Breast	0.366	0.434	0.448	0.553	0.040	0.043
Colon	0.401	0.384	0.503	0.501	0.039	0.040
Gonads	0.368	0.430	0.449	0.580	0.038	0.043
Kidneys	0.338	0.359	0.416	0.468	0.033	0.037
Liver	0.342	0.375	0.420	0.487	0.036	0.039
Lungs	0.364	0.425	0.444	0.546	0.039	0.045
Muscles	0.423	0.461	0.516	0.594	0.040	0.048
Oesophagus	0.264	0.357	0.300	0.468	0.033	0.037
Pancreas	0.324	0.359	0.401	0.465	0.031	0.037
Red bone marrow	0.238	0.244	0.300	0.303	0.029	0.024
Skin	0.482	0.526	0.469	0.663	0.049	0.055
Spleen	0.324	0.368	0.399	0.474	0.032	0.038
Thymus	0.352	0.378	0.432	0.487	0.036	0.040
Thyroid	0.359	0.362	0.451	0.467	0.033	0.038

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