Objective: The purpose of this paper is to provide information on the technical issues that
must be addressed when adapting radiopharmaceuticals for use in children and to review …

Goetz and Hamilton (1) recently compared actual pediatric radiopharmaceutical doses
(extracted from MODS data) with theoretical maximum pediatric doses calculated based on …

Pediatric applications of nuclear medicine provide invaluable information in the diagnosis
and follow-up of many disorders. However, radiopharmaceutical administered activities in …

Nuclear medicine provides methods and techniques in that has benefited pediatric patients
and their referring physicians for over 40 years. Nuclear medicine provides qualitative and …

Abstract The Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine has recently published the consensus
guidelines for pediatric nuclear medicine. This article is the English version of the …

Universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses in children do
not presently exist. Hence, pediatric radiopharmaceutical dosimetry varies considerably from …

Nuclear medicine is a unique and valuable method that contributes to the diagnosis and
assessment of many diseases in children. Radiation exposures in children undergoing …

Background Estimated radiation dose is important for assessing and communicating the
risks and benefits of pediatric nuclear medicine studies. Radiation dose depends on the …

Nuclear medicine is an imaging specialty in which trace amounts of radiopharmaceuticals
are used to examine different physiologic or pathologic processes in the body. Scintigraphic …

The practice of nuclear medicine in children is well established for imaging practically all
physiologic systems but particularly in the fields of oncology, neurology, urology, and …