Minimizing and communicating radiation risk in pediatric nuclear medicine

FH Fahey, ST Treves, SJ Adelstein - Journal of Nuclear Medicine …, 2012 - Soc Nuclear Med
The value of pediatric nuclear medicine is well established. Pediatric patients are referred to
nuclear medicine from nearly all pediatric specialties including urology, oncology …

Nuclear medicine in the first year of life

ST Treves, A Baker, FH Fahey, X Cao… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
Nuclear medicine has an important role in the care of newborns and children less than 1 y
old. Patients in this age group present with a spectrum of diseases different from those of …

Pediatric radiopharmaceutical administered doses: 2010 North American consensus guidelines

MJ Gelfand, MT Parisi, ST Treves - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2011 - Soc Nuclear Med
Dose reduction has been a work in progress in pediatric imaging for nearly a decade. A
1996 report indicated that the long-term risk of carcinogenesis due to ionizing radiation in …

Clinical evaluation of a block sequential regularized expectation maximization reconstruction algorithm in 18F-FDG PET/CT studies

BR Sah, P Stolzmann, G Delso… - Nuclear medicine …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Purpose To investigate the clinical performance of a block sequential regularized
expectation maximization (BSREM) penalized likelihood reconstruction algorithm in …

Optimization of 99mTc whole‐body SPECT/CT image quality: A phantom study

MM Alqahtani, KP Willowson… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Investigate the impact of acquisition time and reconstruction parameters on single‐
photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) image quality …

Guidance on prevention of unintended and accidental radiation exposures in nuclear medicine

CJ Martin, M Marengo, J Vassileva… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear medicine (NM) procedures for diagnosis and treatment of disease are performed
routinely in hospitals throughout the world. These involve preparation and administration to …

Dose estimation in pediatric nuclear medicine

FH Fahey, AB Goodkind, D Plyku, K Khamwan… - Seminars in nuclear …, 2017 - Elsevier
The practice of nuclear medicine in children is well established for imaging practically all
physiologic systems but particularly in the fields of oncology, neurology, urology, and …

Three-minute SPECT/CT is sufficient for the assessment of bone metastasis as add-on to planar bone scintigraphy: prospective head-to-head comparison to 11-min …

HD Zacho, JAB Manresa, R Aleksyniene, JA Ejlersen… - EJNMMI research, 2017 - Springer
Background The aim of this study is to assess whether ultra-fast acquisition SPECT/CT (UF-
SPECT/CT) can replace standard SPECT/CT (std-SPECT/CT) as “add-on” to whole-body …

EANM procedural recommendations for managing the paediatric patient in diagnostic nuclear medicine

L Camoni, A Santos, M Luporsi, A Grilo… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose The manuscript aims to characterize the principles of best practice in performing
nuclear medicine procedures in paediatric patients. The paper describes all necessary …

SPECT/CT technology

P Ritt, J Sanders, T Kuwert - Clinical and Translational Imaging, 2014 - Springer
The continuous development of SPECT over the past 50 years has led to remarkably
improved image quality and increased diagnostic confidence. The most influential …