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Patient surface radiation doses at two PET imaging facilities

L Gonzalez1, C A Cordeiro, E Vano

  • 1Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Complutense University, 28040 Madrid, Spain. luciano@med.ucm.es

Health Physics
|April 23, 2003
PubMed
Summary

Patient radiation doses from 18FDG PET imaging are lower than expected, particularly at the breasts and gonads. Higher injected activity reduces the proportion of radiotracer used for imaging, impacting dose calculations.

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