Dose management in conventional nuclear medicine imaging and PET

Martin Andersson; Sören Mattsson

doi:10.1007/s40336-015-0150-y

Dose management in conventional nuclear medicine imaging and PET

Martin Andersson, Sören Mattsson

Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö

Skåne University Hospital

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Abstract

This review of the basic concepts of dose management in conventional nuclear medicine imaging and positron emission tomography focuses on methods for dose assessment, difficulties with image quality evaluation, need for clear image quality criteria and observer performance studies, studies on representative groups of patients contra individual patients, clinically applicable methods for dose reduction, including the use of diagnostic reference levels. The dose management in nuclear imaging requires more attention and there is a need for better contribution of new technology for individual patient dose management as well as for education and training of the multidisciplinary teams of nuclear medicine physicians, technologists and medical physicists, responsible for the investigations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	21-30
Journal	Clinical and Translational Imaging
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40336-015-0150-y
Publication status	Published - 2016 Feb 1

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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

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Diagnostic nuclear medicine
Diagnostic reference levels
Dose management
Effective dose
Optimisation
PET

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Radiation dose to patients in diagnostic nuclear medicine. Implementation of improved anatomical and biokinetic models for assessment of organ absorbed dose and effective dose.
Andersson, M., 2017, Lund: Lund University: Faculty of Medicine. 62 p.
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Dose management in conventional nuclear medicine imaging and PET

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Radiation dose to patients in diagnostic nuclear medicine. Implementation of improved anatomical and biokinetic models for assessment of organ absorbed dose and effective dose.

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