The new EANM paediatric dosage card: additional notes with respect to F-18.
June 27th, 2008 | by admin |The new EANM paediatric dosage card: additional notes with respect to F-18.
INTRODUCTION: The previously published European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) paediatric dosage card recommends 70 MBq F-18 or F-18 Fluoro-2-Deoxyglucose (F-18-FDG) as the \”minimum recommended activity\”. DISCUSSION: Two recent publications demonstrate that when utilising F-18-labelled radiopharmaceuticals the administration of lower activities for small children is possible without losing image quality. CONCLUSION: In the light of these findings the EANM dosimetry and paediatrics committee have decided to reduce the value for the \”minimum recommended activity\” for both F-18 and F-18-FDG to 26 MBq for 2D- and 14 MBq for 3D-acquisitions.
Lassmann M, Biassoni L, Monsieurs M, Franzius C; EANM Dosimetry and Paediatrics Committees.
Klinik und Poliklinik für Nuklearmedizin der Universität Würzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 2, 97080, Würzburg, Germany, lassmann@nuklearmedizin.uni-wuerzburg.de.