Re: PET study for 30 wk pregnancy

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@yahoo.com>]

I would suggest that you contact Mike Stabin at

michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu as he was involved

with this material.  My impression is that the doses

are from fetal uptake of 18-FDG, not the mother.



--- JGarrett@mbhs.org wrote:

> 

> Thanks for the reference. A question or two

> regarding the data from the

> ORAU web site. The headers for Tables 2 and 3 state

> that if the row is

> shaded, the values are for mother and self dose. I

> am assuming that

> self-dose means dose to the fetus resulting from the

> isotope crossing the

> placenta into the fetus. The values given for FDG

> are not shaded.

> Therefore, I am questioning whether FDG crosses the

> placenta and if so,

> then what should I use to account for the increased

> dose to the fetus?

> 

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John Jacobus, MS

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