Reference Man Models for Males and Females of Six Age Groups of Asian Populations

Abstract

Reference Man models for the adult, 15, 10, 5, 1 and 0 year old males and females of Asian populations were developed for use in internal dosimetry. They are, in principle, based on the concept of ICRP Reference Man (Publication 23) and, for reference values, on the normal organ mass data as well as statistics data on the physique and nutrition and on some other relevant literature data at least on Japanese and Chinese. Variation in physical measurements was considered, as had been tentatively observed in the IAEA-RCA Co-ordinated Research Programme on Compilation of Anatomical, Physiological and Metabolic Characteristics for a Reference Asian Man. The work has been carried out partly within the activities of the ICRP Task Group on Reference Man. The weight of the skeleton is being adjusted following the revised reference values in Publication 70.