Effective dose estimation for oncological and neurological PET/CT procedures

Effective dose estimation for oncological and neurological PET/CT procedures

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the patient effective dose (ED) for different PET/CT procedures performed with a variety of PET radiopharmaceutical compounds. PET/CT studies of 210 patients were reviewed including Torso (n = 123), Whole body (WB) (n = 36), Head and Neck Tumor (HNT) (n = 10), and Brain (n = 41) protocols with 18FDG (n = 170), 11C-CHOL (n = 10), 1...

Provider volume and outcomes for oncological procedures.

BACKGROUND Oncological procedures may have better outcomes if performed by high-volume providers. METHODS A review of the English language literature incorporating searches of the Medline, Embase and Cochrane collaboration databases was performed. Studies were included if they involved a patient cohort from 1984 onwards, were community or population based, and assessed health outcome as a dep...

Reduced-dose [F]-FDG PETCT scanning with current generation PETCT systems

Estimation of effective dose in some digital angiographic and interventional procedures.

In general, effective dose values for similar interventional vascular radiology (IVR) procedures are different. This is due to problems with the classification of radiological procedures, which make comparisons difficult. Patient size, examination technique and clinical condition as well as the skill of the medical radiologists also affect effective dose. Currently, there is a broad agreement o...

Fetus Dose Estimation in Computed Tomography Procedures

Computed Tomography (CT) procedures constitute the 5% of the total diagnostic radiology and provide more than the 40% of the total dose. Patient dose depends on many factors; most of them depend on the way the procedure is performed. All around the world, there is a growing interest in studying patient dose in CT procedures in order to optimize them. If the patient is pregnant, conceptus absorb...