Investigation of alpha emitters in fresh and powdered blood of fertile women: an in vitro application of CR-39 NTDs

Blood samples were acquired from 60 women aged 20–44 years having decreased fertility, infertile or with uterine tumors in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The concentrations of α emitters in fresh blood ranged from 0.0029 to 0.0088 ppm, whereas those in powdered blood ranged from 0.0036 ppm in Eiskan to 0.0096 ppm in Halabjay–Kon in Sulaymania. The α emitter concentrations in fresh blood ranged from 0.0029 to 0.0139 ppm, whereas those in powdered blood ranged from 0.0031 ppm in Shorsh to 0.0146 ppm in Sedakan in the Erbil Governorate. However, the concentrations of α emitters in the blood of women with decreased fertility were higher in the North than women from South Iraq. The difference significantly p < 0.001 revealed higher means of track density of fresh and powder blood in Erbil compared to Sulaymania. α are more damaging to the living tissue and exposure of the gonads leads to decreased fertility in women, most of data have been significant therefore, the result shown the radiation effect on women fertility.