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Fig. 2

From: Preparing for a “dirty bomb” attack: the optimum mix of medical countermeasure resources

Fig. 2

Number of antidote daily doses needed for an “urgent approach” treatment strategy and a large-scale scenario with 60,000 potentially internally contaminated victims depending on the screening capacities (monitoring portals or whole-body counters). Assumption: 1% of the potentially contaminated victims actually need treatment. Treatment duration 90 days. Figures are independent on the radionuclide(s) involved. Computations according to the algorithm described in [23]

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