Evaluation of the risk of radiation exposure from new 18FDG PET/CT plans versus conventional X-ray plans in patients with pediatric cancers

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 261-267

  Murano, Takeshi ^a,b   Tateishi, Ukihide ^b   Iinuma, Takeshi ^c   Shimada, Naoki ^a   Daisaki, Hiromitsu ^a   Terauchi, Takashi ^a   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^a   Inoue, Tomio ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

FDG; PET CT; Radiation exposure; Risk; Shortening of life expectancy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKEMIA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RETINOBLASTOMA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCINTIGRAPHY; SOFT TISSUE CANCER;

CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954518586     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-010-0342-5     Document Type: Article

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