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ICRP Supporting Guidance 3: Guide for the Practical Application of the ICRP Human Respiratory Tract Model
ICRP Supporting Guidance 3 Guide for the Practical Application of the ICRP Human Respiratory Tract Model Author:ICRP The ICRP Publication 66 Human Respiratory Tract Model for Radiological Protection (HRTM) has been applied to calculate dose coefficients (doses per unit intake) and bioassay functions in ICRP Publications 68, 71, 72 and 78. For these purposes, ICRP assigned numerical values to a range of model parameters, such as the size of the inhaled particle... more »s and the breathing rate of the subjects. These are known as `default' or `reference' values, and were chosen to be typical, representative values. In any particular situation the actual values of many parameters can be considerably different from the reference values. Usually, doses from intakes of radionuclides are low compared with the relevant limit or constraint, and the resulting difference is unimportant. There are, however, circumstances where more reliable assessments of intake and dose are desirable. This Guidance Document therefore gives advice on applying specific infor« less