The new EANM paediatric dosage card

• Published in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging Vol. 34; no. 5; pp. 796 - 798
• Main Authors: Lassmann, M, Biassoni, L, Monsieurs, M, Franzius, C, Jacobs, F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Springer Nature B.V 01-05-2007
• Subjects: Body Burden; Body Weight; Child; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - methods; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted - standards; Medical diagnosis; Nuclear medicine; Nuclear Medicine - methods; Oncology; Pediatrics; Pediatrics - methods; Phantoms, Imaging; Positron-Emission Tomography - instrumentation; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Positron-Emission Tomography - standards; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Protocol; Radiation Dosage; Radioisotopes; Radioisotopes - pharmacokinetics; Radioisotopes - standards; Radiometry - methods
• ISSN: 1619-7070; 1619-7089
• DOI: 10.1007/s00259-007-0370-0

In a recent publication, Jacobs et al. proposed the use of three tracer-dependent dosage cards for paediatric nuclear medicine.
Based upon this work, the EANM dosimetry and paediatrics committees introduce a condensed and revised version of this dosage card for major nuclear medicine paediatric diagnostic procedures, replacing the previous card by Piepsz et al. and including a set of minimum activities.
The activities to be administered result in weight-independent effective doses to the children. In addition, the introduction of minimum activities guarantees a minimum standard of image quality throughout Europe and avoids a variety of administered activities in children of the same weight in different countries, which was the case when using the previous EANM dosage card.