A revised dosimetric model of the head and brain
- Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
The use of PET and SPECT radiopharmaceuticals in brain imaging has greatly expanded over the past several years. Many of these agents localize within particular subregions of the brain, thus allowing for detailed physiologic and metabolic imaging. Dosimetric models to support these advances in nuclear medicine have been lacking. For example, the brain within the phantom of MIRD Pamphlet No. 5 Revised is modeled simply as a single ellipsoid of tissue with no differentiation of its internal structures. To address this need, the MIRD Committee established a Task Group in 1992 to construct a revised dosimetric model of the brain to include the following subregions: the cerebral cortex, the white matter, the cerebellum, the thalamus, the caudate nucleus, the lentiform nucleus (putamen and globus pallidus), the cerebral spinal fluid (within the subarachnoid space of the brain), the lateral ventricles, and the third ventricle. Estimates of both electron and photon absorbed fractions (AF) were subsequently calculated using the EGS4 radiation transport code. For most of the internal brain structures, electron AFs are shown to fall fellow unity for all regions within the energy range of {approximately}200 keV to 4 MeV. For example, AFs for the caudate nucleus as both a source and target region and estimated as 0.98, 0.84, 0.39 for 200-keV, 1-MeV, and 4-MeV electron sources, respectively. Corresponding AFs within the white matter as a source and target region are estimated as 1.0, 0.95, and 0.79 for these same electron energies. Revised S values were subsequently calculated for a variety of beta-particle and positron emitters used in brain imaging.
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG05-88ER60707; FG03-94ER61846
- OSTI ID:
- 441592
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-950603-; ISSN 0161-5505; TRN: 96:002093-0017
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 36, Issue Suppl.5; Conference: 42. annual meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, Minneapolis, MN (United States), 12-15 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: May 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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