Reference value
The value of a parameter recommended by the Commission for use in a bio- kinetic model in the absence of more specific information (i.e. the exact value used to calculate the dose coefficients presented in ICRP publications). Reference values may be specified to a greater degree of precision than that which would be chosen to reflect the uncertainty with which an experimental value is known in order to avoid the accumulation of rounding errors in a calculation.
(Adapted from ICRP Publication 135, 2017)
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from ICRP Publication 123, 2013
Value of a quantity recommended by the Commission for use in dosimetric applications or biokinetic models. Reference values are fixed and specified with no uncertainty, independent of the fact that the basis of these values may include many uncertainties.
from ICRP Publication 116, 2010
Value of a quantity recommended by ICRP for use in dosimetric applications or biokinetic models. Reference values are fixed and specified with no uncertainty, independent of the fact that the basis of these values includes many uncertainties.
from ICRP Publication 110, 2008
Standardised value of a parameter recommended by the Commission. Examples are the standardised set of anatomical and physiological parameters for radiation protection purposes summarised in ICRP Publication 89 (2002).
from ICRP Publication 103, 2007
The value of a parameter recommended by the Commission for use in a biokinetic model in the absence of more specific information, i.e., the exact value used to calculate the dose coefficients presented in the report. Reference values may be specified to a greater degree of precision than that which would be chosen to reflect the uncertainty with which an experimental value is known, in order to avoid the accumulation of rounding errors in a calculation.