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Irradiator Commissioning and Dosimetry for Assessment of LQ α and β Parameters, Radiation Dosing Schema, and in vivo Dose Deposition
Published on: March 11, 2021
A SIMPLE AND NOVEL APPROACH TO STUDY KINETICS AND ESTIMATE RADIATION DOSES FROM INTERNALLY ADMINISTERED
Amit Nautiyal1,2, Tanmoy Mondal3, Deepanjan Mitra1
1Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, AMRI Hospitals, Dhakuria, Kolkata, India.
Abstract:
Various methods have been reported to study radiotracer kinetics and make internal dosimetry feasible in the routine clinical nuclear medicine practice. The aim of the present study was to quantify cumulative activity and organ doses using an indigenously designed and fabricated external dose measurement system. The measurement was demonstrated on patients undergoing whole-body (WB) 18F-FDG (Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose) direct positron emission tomography/computed tomography investigations. An external dose measurement system comprising of an ionisation chamber-survey meter and the movable focussing collimator was used to quantify the uptake of 18F-FDG in liver and brain. Cumulative activity and normalised cumulative activity in these organs were calculated. The results were validated by performing measurements on a phantom uniformly filled with known activity of 18F-FDG.The difference in the absorbed dose estimated with and without collimator was statistically significant (p < 0.05). The external dose measurement technique is relatively novel, convenient and reliable for the assessment of internal absorbed dose of organs.
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