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First, a detailed voxel respiratory tract model was established based on the anatomic bronchial parameters of an adult Chinese male. The dimensional parameters of the tracheo-bronchial tree of an adult male adopted in ICRP Publication 66 (ICRP 1994 Human Respiratory Tract Model for Radiological Protection ICRP Publication 66 (Oxford: Pergamon)), featured by consecutive 16 generations of bronchi structures to express the irregular structure of the respiratory tract and the radiosensitive tissues in the bronchial region, were also built for dosimetric study. Then the deposition and clearance models recommended by ICRP were used to analyse the regional deposition and transfer in the respiratory tract, and a fluid dynamic simulation was used to obtain 3D distribution of radon progeny aerosol particles in the bronchial region. The result showed that the highest deposition fraction density occurs at the first and second generations of bronchi. Furthermore, the detailed voxel respiratory tract model along with the Monte Carlo method were used to obtain dose distribution in the BB region. It was found that the dose distribution in the respiratory tract is very non-uniform and the maximum voxel dose is about 30 times higher than the average voxel dose. The dose conversion factor (DCF) for lung in the home environment derived with the dosimetry method in the present work is 9.86 mSv\u00b7WLM\n                    <jats:sup>\u22121<\/jats:sup>\n                    . Sensitivity analysis was performed for the parameters involved in the DCF calculation and it was found that the unattached fraction and breathing rate influence the DCF the most.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1088\/1361-6498\/aac987","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,1]],"date-time":"2018-06-01T09:45:35Z","timestamp":1527846335000},"page":"990-1012","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Establishment of detailed respiratory tract model and Monte Carlo simulation of radon progeny caused dose"],"prefix":"10.1088","volume":"38","author":[{"given":"Hongyu","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junli","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rui","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuxi","family":"Pan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhen","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chunyan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"266","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"jrpaac987bib1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"250","DOI":"10.1016\/S0168-9002(03)01368-8","type":"journal-article","article-title":"Geant4\u2014a simulation toolkit","volume":"506","author":"Agostinelli","year":"2003","journal-title":"Nucl. 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