TY - JOUR
AU - Steck, Daniel J.
AB - Paper ROOM MODEL BASED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AIRBORNE DOSE RATE AND THE SURFACE-DEPOSITED RADON PROGENY † ‡ Kainan Sun,* R. William Field, and Daniel J. Steck INTRODUCTION Abstract—The quantitative relationships between radon gas concentration, the surface-deposited activities of various radon THE RELATIVE concentrations of radon and its decay progeny, the airborne radon progeny dose rate, and various products indoors are influenced by the complex interac- residential environmental factors were investigated through a tion of a number of processes including radioactive Monte Carlo simulation study based on the extended Jacobi decay, ventilation, attachment to aerosols, and deposition room model. Airborne dose rates were calculated from the on surfaces (Nazaroff and Nero 1988; Roos 2002). unattached and attached potential alpha-energy concentra- tions (PAECs) using two dosimetric models. Surface-deposited Radon progeny can be divided into four different groups 218 214 Po and Po were significantly correlated with radon con- depending on their various conditions: attached to aero- centration, PAECs, and airborne dose rate (p-values <0.0001) sols, unattached, deposited on surfaces, and implanted in in both non-smoking and smoking environments. However, in surfaces. The transition and interplay among these com- non-smoking environments, the deposited radon progeny were 
TI - ROOM MODEL BASED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AIRBORNE DOSE RATE AND THE SURFACE-DEPOSITED RADON PROGENY
JF - Health Physics
DO - 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181b8cf92
DA - 2010-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/room-model-based-monte-carlo-simulation-study-of-the-relationship-32fU9CqGPO
SP - 29
EP - 36
VL - 98
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -