NESC0908 AERIN.

AERIN, Organ and Tissue Doses from Radioactive Aerosols

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: AERIN.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
AERIN	NESC0908/01	Tested	07-DEC-1989

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
NESC0908/01	IBM 360 series	IBM 3083

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM OR FUNCTION

AERIN calculates organ and tissue burdens and doses resulting from acute exposure to a radio- active aerosol as a function of time after exposure. The Internatio- nal Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) model proposed by the Task Group on Lung Dynamics is used to predict deposition and retention of the aerosol in the lungs.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION

The models and equations used are based on re- commendations of the ICRP, which assume that the various organs and tissues are compartments which follow first order kinetics. The human respiratory tract is divided into three compartments - the nasopharynx, tracheobronchial, and pulmonary. Equations for the doses to sections of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are derived for the varaivle daily input to the GI tract following the approach of Dolphin and Eve.

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM

Maxima of -
9 organs
299 calculations per organ
It is assumed that the blood acts only as a mechanism for the trans- port of material to the various body organs and tissues and need not be considered a separate compartment.

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

NESC executed the sample problem in less than 1 second of CPU time on an IBM3033.

NESC0908/01

NEA-DB ran the test case included in this package on an IBM 3083 computer in less than 0.1 seconds of CPU time.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS:

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
NESC0908/01	07-DEC-1989	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES:

NESC0908/01, included references:

- P.G. Voilleque:
  Calculation of Organ and Tissue Burdens and Doses Resulting from
  an Acute Exposure to a Radioactive Aerosol Using the ICRP Task
  Group Report on the Human Respiratory Tract
  IDO-12067 (August 1968).

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS: 105K bytes of memory are required for execution.

NESC0908/01

196K bytes of main storage are required for execution on an IBM 3083.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
NESC0908/01	FORTRAN-IV

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED: OS/360.

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MVS/XA (IBM 3083).

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS:

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHOR

      Author     P.G. Voilleque*

      Contact    R.L. Dickson
                 Idaho Operations Office
                 U.S. Department of Energy
                 5500 Second Street
                 Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401

*Present address Science Applications, Inc.
                 101 Park Avenue
                 Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

NESC0908/01