Crawford O H, Turner J E, Hamm R N, Ashley J C
Health and Safety Research Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN 37831-6123.
Health Phys. 1991 Nov;61(5):641-5. doi: 10.1097/00004032-199111000-00008.
The effects that the tissue-air interface has on the basal-layer dose at a depth of 70 microns from beta emitters on the skin surface are studied using Monte Carlo calculations. The dose is decreased at small lateral distances from a point source but is increased at large distances.
