A person ingests an amount of a radioactive source that has a very long lifetime and activity 0.52 µCi. The radioactive material lodges in her lungs, where all of the emitted 4.0 MeV a particles are absorbed within a 0.50 kg mass of tissue. Calculate the absorbed dose and the equivalent dose for one year.

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A person ingests an amount of a radioactive source that has a very long lifetime and activity 0.52 µCi. The radioactive material lodges in her lungs, where all of the emitted 4.0 MeV a particles are absorbed within a 0.50 kg mass of tissue. Calculate the absorbed dose and the equivalent dose for one year.

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