A case of occupational internal contamination with 241Am.

An internal contamination with 241Am was detected in a worker during a routine monitoring of workers from a company producing Am sources for smoke detectors and Am–Be neutron sources. During the 4-year period after the exposure, the number of urine and faecal samples from the worker were analysed; in vivo measurements were also performed. Specific values for absorption parameters of the human respiratory tract model and particle transport values were applied to improve the model fit to the measurement data. A good agreement of the bioassay data with the so-modified model predictions was obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]