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Fetal and maternal absorbed dose estimates for positron-emitting molecular imaging probes

Published inThe Journal of nuclear medicine, vol. 55, no. 9, p. 1459-1466
Publication date2014
Abstract

PET and hybrid (PET/CT and PET/MR) imaging currently play a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis, staging and restaging, treatment, and surveillance of several diseases. As such, limiting the radiation exposure of special patients, such as pregnant women, from PET procedures is an important challenge that needs to be appropriately addressed because of the high sensitivity of the developing embryo/fetus to ionizing radiation. Therefore, accurate radiation dose calculation for the embryo/fetus and pregnant patient from common positron-emitting radiotracers is highly desired.

Keywords
  • Dihydroxyphenylalanine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacokinetics
  • Female
  • Fetus/radiation effects
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18/pharmacokinetics
  • Humans
  • Molecular Imaging
  • Pheochromocytoma/radionuclide imaging
  • Positron-Emission Tomography/methods
  • Pregnancy
  • Radiation Dosage
Citation (ISO format)
XIE, Tianwu, ZAIDI, Habib. Fetal and maternal absorbed dose estimates for positron-emitting molecular imaging probes. In: The Journal of nuclear medicine, 2014, vol. 55, n° 9, p. 1459–1466. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.114.141309
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