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Practical determination of organ S values for individual patients for therapy
S Shen1, G L DeNardo, D J Macey
1Section of Radiodiagnosis and Therapy, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento 95816, USA.
Nuclear Medicine and Biology
|July 1, 1997
Abstract:
Radiation dose calculations using S values of a reference man can introduce substantial errors for individuals patients. We found that all non target sources can be included in the remainder of the body estimate for therapeutic radionuclides. A practical method to derive organ S values based on MIRD data and the mass of the organ and total body of individual patients is proposed.