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Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy

Indoor radon concentrations were measured in dwellings of the Puglia region in Southern Italy using LR-115 passive detectors. The results show that the radon concentrations varied from 15 ± 2 to 2166 ± 133 Bq/m(3) with a geometric mean of 114 Bq/m(3) and a geometric standard deviation of 2.3. An ana...

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Autores principales: Quarto, Maria, Pugliese, Mariagabriella, La Verde, Giuseppe, Loffredo, Filomena, Roca, Vincenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26610543
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121114948
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author Quarto, Maria
Pugliese, Mariagabriella
La Verde, Giuseppe
Loffredo, Filomena
Roca, Vincenzo
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description Indoor radon concentrations were measured in dwellings of the Puglia region in Southern Italy using LR-115 passive detectors. The results show that the radon concentrations varied from 15 ± 2 to 2166 ± 133 Bq/m(3) with a geometric mean of 114 Bq/m(3) and a geometric standard deviation of 2.3. An analysis on the factors affecting radon concentration such as age of the dwellings, floors, and stories, was performed. The mean effective dose to inhabitants has been calculated and found to be 8.2 mSv/y. Finally, for estimation of cancer risks, the lifetime risk and lung cancer cases per years per million have been calculated.
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spelling pubmed-46616902015-12-10 Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy Quarto, Maria Pugliese, Mariagabriella La Verde, Giuseppe Loffredo, Filomena Roca, Vincenzo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Indoor radon concentrations were measured in dwellings of the Puglia region in Southern Italy using LR-115 passive detectors. The results show that the radon concentrations varied from 15 ± 2 to 2166 ± 133 Bq/m(3) with a geometric mean of 114 Bq/m(3) and a geometric standard deviation of 2.3. An analysis on the factors affecting radon concentration such as age of the dwellings, floors, and stories, was performed. The mean effective dose to inhabitants has been calculated and found to be 8.2 mSv/y. Finally, for estimation of cancer risks, the lifetime risk and lung cancer cases per years per million have been calculated. MDPI 2015-11-23 2015-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4661690/ /pubmed/26610543 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121114948 Text en © 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy
title_full Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy
title_fullStr Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy
title_full_unstemmed Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy
title_short Radon Exposure Assessment and Relative Effective Dose Estimation to Inhabitants of Puglia Region, South Italy
title_sort radon exposure assessment and relative effective dose estimation to inhabitants of puglia region, south italy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4661690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26610543
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121114948
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