Yuta Takamura, Tsuyoshi Kajimoto, Kenichi Tanaka, Tomoya Yamamoto, Masatoshi Suzuki, Yohei Inaba, Koichi Chida, Manabu Fukumoto, Chary Rangacharyulu, Satoru Endo
The purpose of this study was to estimate the internal dose of radiation in Japanese macaques (aka Nihonzaru or snow monkey) due to the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. Images of a male Japanese macaque weighing ~10 kg were acquired using a multi-slice computed tomography (CT) scan with a 64-row segment detector. The CT images were used to create voxel phantoms of the bones, bone marrow, brain, eyes, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, intestines, bladder, testes, thyroid and miscellaneous tissue...
August 7, 2023: Journal of Radiation Research