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Fig. 4

From: Medical management of victims contaminated with radionuclides after a “dirty bomb” attack

Fig. 4

Time course of radioactivity in the central compartment [44] (blood, extracellular space) emanating from a wound contaminated with 37 kBq (1 μCi) of plutonium-239 as a soluble compound. Activity falls to low values after approximately 10 days. The decorporation agent (Ca) DTPA is distributed mainly in the extracellular space, where it can bind plutonium. Thus, treatment must start within 10 days to be highly effective (“therapeutic window”)

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