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Nuclear Medicine Dose Assessment

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Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine

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Radiation dose estimates are necessary for evaluating risks and benefits from medical examinations using radiopharmaceuticals, in particular for therapeutic applications. This chapter describes standardized methods and models for calculating internal doses from radiopharmaceutical studies. Standard organ and marrow dose models are described, techniques for obtaining data from animal or human studies are outlined, with examples given, and discussion of patient-individualized dosimetry and the biological response of tissues to dose from ionizing radiation is also provided.

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Stabin, M.G. (2012). Nuclear Medicine Dose Assessment. In: Baum, R. (eds) Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_737

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