An international multi-center investigation on the accuracy of radionuclide calibrators in nuclear medicine theragnostics.
Clarita Saldarriaga VargasMatthias BauwensIvo N A PootersStefaan PomméSteffie M B PetersMarcel SegbersWalter JentzenAndreas VoggFloris H P van VeldenSebastiaan L Meyer ViolMartin GotthardtFelix M MottaghyJoachim E WildbergerPeter CovensRoel WiertsPublished in: EJNMMI physics (2020)
Our study shows that substantial over- or underestimation of therapeutic patient doses is likely to occur in a theragnostic setting due to errors in the assessment of radioactivity with radionuclide calibrators. These findings underline the importance of thorough validation of radionuclide calibrator systems for each clinically relevant radionuclide and sample geometry.
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