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Paediatric doses—a critical appraisal of the EANM paediatric dosage card

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge and respect the great work done by the EANM Dosimetry & Paediatric Committees. It would have been the easiest solution for us just to let the new dosage card pass without comment, and to continue “business as usual” in our department. However, for the sake of achieving the best conditions for paediatric PET patients, we find that this issue deserves a thorough academic debate based on the best available knowledge. Should we be wrong in our arguments, we would welcome a correction.

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  1. PET and Cyclotron Unit, Department of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Søren Holm, Lise Borgwardt, Annika Loft, Jesper Graff, Ian Law & Liselotte Højgaard

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Holm, S., Borgwardt, L., Loft, A. et al. Paediatric doses—a critical appraisal of the EANM paediatric dosage card. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 34, 1713–1718 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-007-0508-0

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