New Fetal Radiation Doses for <sup>18</sup>F-FDG Based on Human Data.

Zanotti-Fregonara, Paolo; Stabin, Michael G · J Nucl Med · 2017

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Current standard values of fetal dosimetry deriving from <sup>18</sup>F-FDG injection in pregnant women are estimated from animal data. The present communication offers a revision of fetal dosimetry values calculated from recently published human data, in which fetal <sup>18</sup>F-FDG uptake was directly observed in vivo. The final doses were obtained from the observed time-integrated activity coefficients and a new generation of anthropomorphic voxel-based pregnancy phantoms.

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