Beyond current guidelines: reduction in minimum administered radiopharmaceutical activity with preserved diagnostic image quality in pediatric hepatobiliary scintigraphy

Frederic H. Fahey,Katherine Zukotynski,David Zurakowski,Robert Markelewicz,Anthony Falone,Marie Vitello,Xinhua Cao,Frederick D. Grant,Laura A. Drubach,A. Hans Vija,Manojeet Bhattacharya,Xinhong Ding,Zvi Bar-Sever,Michael J. Gelfand,S. Ted Treves

Beyond current guidelines: reduction in minimum administered radiopharmaceutical activity with preserved diagnostic image quality in pediatric hepatobiliary scintigraphy

2014

Frederic H. Fahey
Katherine Zukotynski
David Zurakowski
Robert Markelewicz
Anthony Falone
Marie Vitello
Xinhua Cao
Frederick D. Grant
Laura A. Drubach
A. Hans Vija
Manojeet Bhattacharya
Xinhong Ding
Zvi Bar-Sever
Michael J. Gelfand
S. Ted Treves

Purpose To determine if the minimum administered radiopharmaceutical activity for hepatobiliary scintigraphy can be reduced while preserving diagnostic image quality using enhanced planar processing (EPP).

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Pathology
Medicine
Radiology
Scintigraphy
Image quality
Nuclear medicine
Radiopharmaceutical Activity
dose optimization

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