Effects of body and organ size on absorbed dose: there is no standard patient. [Radiation dose distribution in patients following radionuclide administration]
The problem of estimating the absorbed dose to organs and tissues of the human body due to the presence of a radiopharmaceutical in one or more organs is discussed. Complications are introduced by the fact that the body is not homogeneous and in many cases the organ shapes are not regular. Publications of the MIRD Committee have provided a direct means of estimating the absorbed dose (or absorbed fraction) for a number of radioisotopes. These estimates are based on Monte Carlo calculations for monoenergetic photons distributed uniformly in organs of an adult phantom. The medical physicist finds that his patient does not resemble the adult phantom. In addition, the absorbed fractions for the adult are not reasonable values for the child. This paper examines how these absorbed fraction estimates apply to a nonstandard patient. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., Tenn. (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7192994
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-760444-4; TRN: 76-015159
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Symposium on radiopharmaceutical dosimetry, Oak Ridge, TN, USA, 26 Apr 1976
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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