A Nordic survey of CT doses in hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/CT examinations.

Natalie Anne Bebbington Bryan Thomas HaddockHenrik BertilssonEero HippeläinenEllen M HusbyVirpi I TunninenMarcus Söderberg

Published in: EJNMMI physics (2019)

Suggested Nordic NDRL CT doses are presented according to clinical purpose of CT for PET/CT oncology, infection/inflammation, brain, PET/CT and SPECT/CT cardiac, and SPECT/CT lung, bone, and parathyroid. The large variation in doses suggests great scope for optimisation in all 8 examinations.

Keyphrases

pet ct
positron emission tomography
image quality
dual energy
computed tomography
contrast enhanced
oxidative stress
left ventricular
white matter
cross sectional
brain injury
functional connectivity
postmenopausal women
bone loss