An approach for balancing diagnostic image quality with cancer risk: Application to pediatric diagnostic imaging of 99mTc- dimercaptosuccinic acid

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1923-1929

  Sgouros, George ^a   Frey, Eric C ^a   Bolch, Wesley E ^b   Wayson, Michael B ^b   Abadia, Andres F ^b   Treves, S Ted ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DMSA; Dose reduction; Dosimetry; Image simulation; Optimization; Pediatric imaging

Indexed keywords

SUCCIMER TC 99M;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG CLEARANCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SCATTERING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNETIUM TC 99M DIMERCAPTOSUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 83755161885     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.092221     Document Type: Article

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