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Re: PET study for 30 wk pregnancy
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--- JGarrett@mbhs.org wrote:
> I have just received a call from one of our Nuc Med
> docs who wants to know
> what the fetal dose would be for an 8 - 15 mCi FDG
> study performed on a
> woman 30 weeks along in her pregnancy. If someone
> could point me to an
> article/web site I would appreciate it. Or if you
> have already been through
> this and have performed the calcs and don't mind
> sharing them with me that
> would be great too. I have come across numbers for a
> 3 week fetus listing
> the dose as 7 mGy/400 MBq. However, I would think
> that a 30 week old fetus
> would uptake more F-18 due to an increase of glucose
> utilization and thus
> increase the fetal dose.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeffrey A. Garrett, MS, DABR
> Chief Physicist
> Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
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