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Springer, 2013. — 163 p. Radiation protection is an important task for nuclear medicine departments with regard to the use of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. It is important to make sure that the radiation dose to the patients as well as to staff members is kept as low as reasonable achievable (ALARA). In the last few years, the use of PET substances with higher photon energy than the previously used radionuclides has been more and more common, and the number of PET radionuclides is increasing. There is a sudden appearance of multimodal PET/CT and SPECT/CT scanners. New radiopharmaceuticals for targeted radionuclide therapy are introduced. Radiotracers are more and more used in surgical practices like identification of lymph node involvement in breast cancer and colon cancer, etc. The staff will be exposed to radiation during production, labeling, transport, injection, and when being close to the patients. The increased use of PET-imaging causes a need for new planning of radiation protection and education of all categories of staff members. This was the reason for choosing the topic of radiation protection in nuclear medicine for the second training

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Author

Mattsson S., Hoeschen Ch. (Editors)

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9783642437168

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Medical, Physics