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Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography (PET/CT) has emerged as an early diagnosis and staging in several pathologies, particularly on cancer. The radiopharmaceuticals used in this technique are beta plus-emitters (β+) and radiate gamma photons (γ) with 511 keV, which is considerably higher in comparison with conventional nuclear medicine, implying that the conventional amounts of lead and tungsten in shields are not enough for an appropriate radiation protection of the practitioners. In this work two commercially available PET radiopharmaceuticals (PET-Rph) dispensers are compared. Results demonstrate that both instruments are robust and accurate, although not precise. Also particular care needs to be taken while working with PET-Rph, namely the arrangement of the material and equipment on the working bench.
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The authors would like to thank the CISC for having allowed the data collection and development of the study. A special thanks to Janice Bush, James Hunter, Georgina Haywood and Katherine Day for their availability, cooperation and support along these months. At last but not the least, to ESTeSL, for encourage the students developing creative projects, which is one of the reasons that make them brilliant future health care professionals.
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Oliveira, J., Hunter, J., Carolino, E., Lucena, F. (2018). Minimisation of Equivalent Dose to the Extremities During PET Radiopharmaceuticals Dispensing. In: Tavares, J., Natal Jorge, R. (eds) VipIMAGE 2017. ECCOMAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 27. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_21
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