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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Initial Testing of an Approximated, Fast Calculation Procedure for Personalized Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy Based on Planar Whole-Body Scan and Monte-Carlo Specific Dose Rates from the

Davide Bianco, Carmela Nappi, Leandra Piscopo, Fabio Volpe, Mariarosaria Manganelli, Federica Volpicelli, Filomena Loffredo, Pasquale Totaro, Maria Quarto, Alberto Cuocolo and 1 more

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Davide BiancoDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7894-0447
Carmela NappiDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Leandra PiscopoDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Fabio VolpeDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Mariarosaria ManganelliDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Federica VolpicelliDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Filomena LoffredoDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3105-1030
Pasquale TotaroDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Maria QuartoDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0119-2393
Alberto CuocoloDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3431-7658
Michele KlainDepartment of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University "Federico II", 80131 Naples, Italy.
Federico II University Hospital · ITItalian Aerospace Research Centre · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Individualized dosimetry in nuclear medicine is currently at least advisable in order to obtain the best risk-benefit balance in terms of the maximal dose to lesions and under-threshold doses to radiosensitive organs. This article aims to propose a procedure for fast dosimetric calculations based on planar whole-body scintigraphy (WBS) images and developed to be employed in everyday clinical practice.

methodsFor simplicity and legacy reasons, the method is based on planar imaging dosimetry, complemented with some assumptions on the radiopharmaceutical kinetics empirically derived from single-photon emission tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) image analysis. The idea is to exploit a rough estimate of the time-integrated activity as has been suggested for SPECT/CT dosimetry but using planar images. The resulting further reduction in dose estimation accuracy is moderated by the use of a high-precision Monte-Carlo S-factor, such as those available within the OpenDose project.

resultsWe moved the problem of individualized dosimetry to a transformed space where comparing doses was imparted to the ICRP Average Male/Female computational phantom, resulting from an activity distribution related to patient's pharmaceutical uptake. This is a fast method for the personalized dosimetric evaluation of radionuclide therapy, bearing in mind that the resulting doses are meaningful in comparison with thresholds calculated in the same framework.

conclusionThe simplified scheme proposed here can help the community, or even the single physician, establish a quantitative guide-for-the-eye approach to individualized dosimetry.

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individualized dosimetryplanar WBSradionuclide therapy

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PMID36143340
PMCPMC9503858
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