18F-FDG PET in pregnancy and fetal radiation dose estimates

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1035-1040

  Takalkar, Amol M ^a,b   Khandelwal, Alok ^a   Lokitz, Stephen ^a,b   Lilien, David L ^a   Stabin, Michael G ^c  

^a Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET; Fetal radiation dose; PET; Radiation safety

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURESIS; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INFANT; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; TIME;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960288565     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.085381     Document Type: Article

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