Pediatric radiopharmaceutical doses: New guidelines

Radiology

Volumn 261, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 347-349

  Treves, S Ted ^a   Parisi, Marguerite T ^b   Gelfand, Michael J ^c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGLYCINE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MACROSALB TC 99M; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; MERTIATIDE TC 99M; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18; SUCCIMER TC 99M; TECHNETIUM 99M; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BODY BURDEN; CHILD; CONSENSUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG LABELING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NORTH AMERICA; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 80054776069     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11110449     Document Type: Editorial

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