Summary of Collective Effective Dose Estimates for Nuclear Medicine Procedures in 2005 Showing That Most Scans Were for Nuclear Cardiology
| Category | Collective effective dose (person-Sv) | Percentage of total |
| Cardiac | 187,915 | 85.2 |
| Bone | 20,517 | 9.3 |
| Tumor | 3,925 | 1.8 |
| Gastrointestinal | 3,534 | 1.6 |
| Lung | 2,012 | 0.9 |
| Infection | 1,329 | 0.6 |
| Renal | 643 | 0.3 |
| Thyroid | 397 | 0.2 |
| Brain | 259 | 0.1 |
| Total | 220,533 (220,500) | 100 |
Adapted with permission of (1).