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DOI: 10.47183/mes.2023.030

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Computational red bone marrow dosimetry phantom of a one-year-old child enabling assessment of exposure due to incorporated beta emitters

Sharagin PA1, Shishkina EA1,2, Tolstykh EI1
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1 Ural Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Chelyabinsk, Russia

2 Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Pavel A. Sharagin
Vorovsky st., 68 A, Chelyabinsk, 454141, Russia; ur.mrcru@nigarahs

About paper

Funding: the work was part of the Federal Target Program "Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety for 2016-2020 and up to 2035", with financial support from the Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia.

Author contribution: Sharagin PA — data generation, analysis, interpretation, manuscript authoring and editing; Tolstykh EI — study methodology development, manuscript editing; Shishkina EA — conceptualization, manuscript editing.

Received: 2023-06-14 Accepted: 2023-08-23 Published online: 2023-09-26
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