Physics Faculty Publications

Dosimetric challenges for residential radon epidemiology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2006

Disciplines

Health and Medical Physics | Physics

Abstract

Radon concentration alone may not be an adequate surrogate to measure for lung cancer risk in all residential radon epidemiologic lung cancer studies. The dose delivered to the lungs per unit radon exposure can vary significantly with exposure conditions. These dose-effectiveness variations can be comparable to spatial and temporal factor variations in many situations. New technologies that use surface-deposited and implanted radon progeny activities make more accurate dose estimates available for future epidemiologic studies.

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