Other recommendations include utilizing new image-processing techniques that have emerged in the last few years that offer advantages over older methods by generating images of vastly improved quality that provide diagnostic information with lower administered radiopharmaceutical doses. The authors are presently applying these new techniques to a variety of tests.
"It is time to take a fresh look at pediatric nuclear medicine dosimetry and an opportunity to reach consensus. There is a need to optimize minimum dosing activity without sacrificing image quality," said Treves. "Nuclear medicine has become indispensible to the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric disorders, especially with its safe and largely non-invasive procedures that produce critical diagnostic information exposing the patient to very small levels of radiation-an extremely important consideration in imaging children."
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Co-authors of "Administered Radiopharmaceutical Doses in Children: A Survey of 13 Pediatric Hospitals in North America" include Royal T. Davis, CNMT, RT(N), technical director, and Frederic H. Fahey, D.Sc., director of nuclear medicine physics, both at Children's Hospital in Boston, Mass.
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