ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Computational phantom for red bone marrow dosimetry from incorporated beta emitters in a newborn baby

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1 Urals Research Center for Radiation Medicine of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, Chelyabinsk, Russia

2 Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Pavel A. Sharagin
Vorovskogo, 68-а, Chelyabinsk, 454141, Russia; ur.mrcru@nigarahs

About paper

Funding: The work was performed within the framework of the Federal Targeted Program "Nuclear and Radiation Safety" and was financially supported by the Federal Medical — Biological Agency of Russia. The methodological approaches were developed with financial support from the Federal Medical — Biological Agency of Russia and the Office of International Health Programs of the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the joint U.S.-Russian JCCRER 1.1 project.

Author contribution: all authors contributed equally to the development of research methodology, data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation, and to the writing and editing of the article.

Received: 2022-11-10 Accepted: 2022-12-19 Published online: 2022-12-27
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