Books by ICRP

Provides inhalation dose coefficients for selected radioisotopes of hydrogen, carbon, sulphur, calcium, iron, cobalt, nickel, zinc, selenium, strontium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, technetium, ruthenium, silver, antimony, tellurium, iodine, caesium, barium, cerium, lead, polonium, radium, thorium, uranium, plutonium, americium and curium.

Describes a revision of the model used in ICRP Publication 30 to calculate radiation doses to the respiratory tract of workers resulting from the intake of airborne radionuclides.

Since issuing ICRP Publication 61, ICRP has published a revised kinetic and dosimetric model of the respiratory tract. This report aims to give values of dose coefficients for workers using this new model.

After some therapeutic nuclear medicine procedures with unsealed radionuclides, precautions may be needed to limit doses to other people, but this is rarely the case after diagnostic procedures. This book recommends that young children and infants, and visitors not engaged in direct care or comforting, should be treated as members of the public.

Before 1990, dose-equivalent quantities were defined in terms of a quality factor, Q(L), that was applied to the absorbed dose at a point in order to take into account the differences in the effects of different types of radiation. In its 1990 recommendations, the ICRP introduced a modified concept. This book deals with this topic.

A report that collects, unifies, and expands the ICRP reference values for the purpose of providing a comprehensive and consistent set of age- and gender-specific reference values for anatomical and physiological features of the human body pertinent to radiation dosimetry.

In its 1990 recommendations, the ICRP considered the radiation risks after exposure during prenatal development. This book presents a critical review of experimental animal data on biological effects and evaluations of human studies after prenatal radiation published since the 1990 recommendations.

Focuses on age dependent dose coefficients to members of the public follows ICRP Publications 56 and 67. This book gives parameters for the tissue distribution and retention of these elements together with data on urinary and faecal excretion.

Summarizes data on age-dependent committed effective dose coefficients for members of the public from intakes by ingestion and inhalation of radioisotopes of the 91 elements described in "ICRP Publications 56, 67, 68, 69 and 71". This report is useful to operational health physicists and to advisory bodies responsible for radiation protection.