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Fetal HSC distributions were updated based on developmental biology evidence, with a focus on the liver and bone marrow. Monte Carlo simulations were performed using the International Commission on Radiological Protection pregnant-female mesh-type reference computational phantoms coupled with Geant4 code to calculate photon dose coefficients for external exposures in antero-posterior (AP) direction and photon specific absorbed fractions for internal exposures with maternal urinary bladder contents as the source region.\n                    <jats:italic>Main Results<\/jats:italic>\n                    . Compared with conventional RBM-only approach, in the 8 week phantom, HSCs were assumed to be localized entirely in the liver, resulting in zero RBM dose values while HSC doses remained substantial. Between 10 and 20 weeks, the HSC and RBM doses showed substantial discrepancies, with maximum differences of up to 7.2-fold for external exposures due to the dominant contribution of HSCs in the fetal liver. At 25\u201330 weeks, discrepancies decreased as HSCs progressively colonized the bone marrow, and at 35\u201338 weeks, HSC and RBM doses became identical.\n                    <jats:italic>Significance<\/jats:italic>\n                    . The fetus-specific HSC dosimetry provides biologically informed estimates of doses to leukemia-relevant target cells and highlights the limitations of RBM-only approach at early and mid-fetal ages. 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