Paediatric doses - A critical appraisal of the EANM paediatric dosage card

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1713-1718

  Holm, Søren ^a   Borgwardt, Lise ^a   Loft, Annika ^a   Graff, Jesper ^a   Law, Ian ^a   Højgaard, Liselotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOISOTOPE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BODY BURDEN; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; EUROPE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PEDIATRICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 35349019846     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-007-0508-0     Document Type: Editorial

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