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Radiation Dosimetry in 18F-FDG PET/CT

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The number of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/computed tomography (CT) examinations that are performed is rapidly increasing. A total of 308,663 FDG PET and PET/CT examinations were performed in Korea in 2009 compared with 66 examinations conducted in 1994, when the first PET was installed (The Korean Society of Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear medicine procedures statistics over 48 years: year 2009, 2009). In the US, probably more than 1.5 million PET and PET/CT patient studies were performed per year in recent years.

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  1. Yale PET Center, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Eunkyung Angela Park M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. and Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas, Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Holcombe Blvd. 1515, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    E. Edmund Kim

  2. Gachon University School of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guwol-dong 1198, Namdong-Gu, Incheon, 405, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Myung-Chul Lee

  3. Yokohama City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Fukuura 3-9, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0004, Japan

    Tomio Inoue

  4. The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dept. of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Holcombe Blvd. 1400, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    Wai-Hoi Wong

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Park, E.A. (2013). Radiation Dosimetry in 18F-FDG PET/CT. In: Kim, E., Lee, MC., Inoue, T., Wong, WH. (eds) Clinical PET and PET/CT. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0802-5_10

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