Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2021. Vol. 66. № 6. P. 99–101

Conducting Studies of the Am-241 Radionuclide Incorporated
into the Human Body Using a Wound Detector

V.N. Yatsenko, G.M. Avetisov, D.I. Vzorov, S.L. Burtsev, O.V. Yatsenko, E.S. Leonov

A.I. Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center, Moscow, Russia.

Contact person: Vladimir Naumovich Yatsenko, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

Purpose: to develop a method for experimental study of the distribution of radionuclide 241Am in human organs and tissues during wound admission to clarify the process of formation of doses of alpha radiation.

Material and methods: in clinical practice of Burnazyan FMBC of the FMBA of Russia  To improve the method of determination, an experiment was performed to determine the depth of radionuclide on pigskin with the location of 241Am point sources behind different thicknesses. 

Results: the used methods of measurement, tested on pigskin, allowed to obtain the dependence of the localization depth of radionuclide 241Am on the measured on the surface of the tissue ratios of photons with different energies.

Conclusion: Set the ratio of photons with different energies on the thickness of the barrier (depth), and proven methodology allow you to go directly to the planning of experimental studies on the barrier effect created in the bone material, and including a radionuclide, the formation of doses of alpha radiation on the bone marrow.

Key words: Wound entry, deepening of the radionuclide in biological tissue, absorbed dose of alpha radiation, distribution of americium in organs and tissues, wound gamma spectrometer

For citation: Yatsenko VN, Avetisov GM, Vzorov DI, Burtsev SL, Yatsenko OV, Leonov ES. Conducting Studies of the Am-241 Radionuclide Incorporated into the Human Body Using a Wound Detector. Medical Radiology and Radiation Safety. 2021;66(6):99–101.

DOI: 10.12737/1024-6177-2021-66-6-99-101

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Conflict of interest. The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Financing. The study had no sponsorship.

Contribution. Article was prepared with equal participation of the authors.

Article received: 16.09.2021. 

Accepted for publication: 22.10.2021.