Yankovich, Tamara L.; Beresford, Nicholas A.; Wood, Michael D.; Aono, Tasuo; Andersson, Pal; Barnett, Catherine L. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9723-7247; Bennett, Pamela; Brown, Justin E.; Fesenko, Sergey; Fesenko, J.; Hosseini, Ali; Howard, Brenda J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9698-9524; Johansen, Mathew P.; Phaneuf, Marcel M.; Tagami, Keiko; Takata, Hyoe; Twining, John R.; Uchida, Shigeo.
2010
Whole-body to tissue concentration ratios for use in biota dose assessments for animals.
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics, 49.
549-565.
10.1007/s00411-010-0323-z
Environmental monitoring programs often
measure contaminant concentrations in animal tissues
consumed by humans (e.g., muscle). By comparison,
demonstration of the protection of biota from the potential
effects of radionuclides involves a comparison of wholebody
doses to radiological dose benchmarks. Consequently,
methods for deriving whole-body concentration
ratios based on tissue-specific data are required to make
best use of the available information. This paper provides a
series of look-up tables with whole-body:tissue-specific
concentration ratios for non-human biota. Focus was
placed on relatively broad animal categories (including
molluscs, crustaceans, freshwater fishes, marine fishes,
amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) and commonly
measured tissues (specifically, bone, muscle, liver and
kidney). Depending upon organism, whole-body to tissue
concentration ratios were derived for between 12 and 47
elements. The whole-body to tissue concentration ratios
can be used to estimate whole-body concentrations from
tissue-specific measurements. However, we recommend
that any given whole-body to tissue concentration ratio
should not be used if the value falls between 0.75 and 1.5.
Instead, a value of one should be assumed.
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