Dose 2016

Compact Bone Tissue

LifeART. Super Anatomy Collection, Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins

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w,med = 0.98 for low density lung

=1.01 for soft tissue =1.03 for soft bone =1.12 for hard bone

Haversian system

Blood vessels

Osteocyte

Given importance of DNA damage, it is reasonable to assume that the biologically most relevant dose target is the cell nucleus, and that it is best treated as a water cavity. Enger et al PMB 2012