PET/CT and SPECT/CT Dosimetry in Children: The Challenge to the Pediatric Imager

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 391-398

  Gelfand, Michael J ^a   Lemen, Lisa C ^b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 67; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; METAIODOBENZYLGUANIDINE I 123; RADIOISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WBC IN 111; WBC TC 99M;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PEDIATRICS; PITCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROTATION;

BODY BURDEN; CHILD; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34547838290     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2007.05.002     Document Type: Review

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