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Uncertainty Analysis of Inhalation Dose Coefficients for Nuclear Incident Response

Cochran, Lainy D.; Dewji, Shaheen A.; Margot, Dmitri; Jelsema, Casey M.; Kalinowski, Autumn E.; Farrar, David R.

This study addressed the need to characterize variability in inhalation dose coefficients due to uncertainties in respiratory tract deposition, systemic biokinetics, and physiological parameters. A Python-based implementation of the International Commission on Radiological Protection Publication 66 Human Respiratory Tract Model was developed called the Radiological Exposure Dose Calculator (REDCAL) to propagate parameter uncertainty.