Patient size-dependent dosimetry methodology applied to 18F-FDG using new ICRP mesh phantoms

LM Carter, C Choi, S Krebs, BJ Beattie… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
Despite the known influence of anatomic variability on internal dosimetry, dosimetry for 18F-
FDG and other diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals is routinely derived using reference …

PARaDIM: a PHITS-based Monte Carlo tool for internal dosimetry with tetrahedral mesh computational phantoms

LM Carter, TM Crawford, T Sato, T Furuta… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Soc Nuclear Med
Mesh-type and voxel-based computational phantoms comprise the current state of the art for
internal dose assessment via Monte Carlo simulations but excel in different aspects, with …

[HTML][HTML] IDAC-Dose 2.1, an internal dosimetry program for diagnostic nuclear medicine based on the ICRP adult reference voxel phantoms

M Andersson, L Johansson, K Eckerman, S Mattsson - EJNMMI research, 2017 - Springer
Background To date, the estimated radiation-absorbed dose to organs and tissues in
patients undergoing diagnostic examinations in nuclear medicine is derived via calculations …

Body-size-dependent phantom library constructed from ICRP mesh-type reference computational phantoms

C Choi, YS Yeom, H Lee, H Han, B Shin… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recently, ICRP Task Group 103 developed new mesh-type reference
computational phantoms (MRCPs) for the adult male and female by converting the current …

Individualized adjustments to reference phantom internal organ dosimetry—Scaling factors given knowledge of patient internal anatomy

MB Wayson, WE Bolch - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Various computational tools are currently available that facilitate patient organ dosimetry in
diagnostic nuclear medicine, yet they are typically restricted to reporting organ doses to …

Re-evaluation of pediatric 18F-FDG dosimetry: Cristy–Eckerman versus UF/NCI hybrid computational phantoms

K Khamwan, SE O'Reilly, D Plyku… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Because of the concerns associated with radiation exposure at a young age, there is an
increased interest in pediatric absorbed dose estimates for imaging agents. Almost all …

Feasibility of reducing differences in estimated doses in nuclear medicine between a patient-specific and a reference phantom

A Zvereva, H Schlattl, M Zankl, J Becker… - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
The feasibility of reducing the differences between patient-specific internal doses and doses
estimated using reference phantoms was evaluated. Relatively simple adjustments to a …

ICRP publication 145: adult mesh-type reference computational phantoms

CH Kim, YS Yeom, N Petoussi-Henß… - Annals of the …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Following the issuance of new radiological protection recommendations in ICRP Publication
103, the Commission released, in ICRP Publication 110, the adult male and female voxel …

Comparative analysis of the conversion coefficient for internal dosimetry using different phantoms

IVB de Lacerda, JW Vieira, ML Oliveira… - Radiation Physics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
There are many ways to estimate the absorbed dose for internal radionuclides. They are
used to assess the stochastic risks associated with diagnostic applications of nuclear …

Comparison of internal doses calculated using the specific absorbed fractions of the average adult Japanese male phantom with those of the reference computational …

K Manabe, K Sato, A Endo - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to study the effects of body sizes and masses of organs and tissues on internal dose
assessment, the values corresponding to effective dose coefficients for intakes of …