Dose 2016

ICRP PUBLICATION 23: REFERENCE MAN: ANATOMICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND METABOLIC CHARACTERISTICS, 23

Tissue Substitutes in Radiation Dosimetry and Measurement (Report 44)

Note: implicit assumption that elemental composition, weights and density values correspond to ‘standard’ compositions as in ICRU 44 and ICRP23 This ignores patient to patient variation (~15%)

‘ body tissue compositions should not be given the standing of physical constants’

Gender? Ethnicity? Number of samples?