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Likely, most nuclear clinicians will naturally acknowledge that SPECT/CT is the best tool beside PET/CT to get an accurate individual dosimetry in internal radiotherapy. But is it really needed? Often, internal radiotherapies are performed without any real individual dosimetry assessment. So why should we use the state-of-the-art SPECT/CT system?

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Walrand, S. (2014). SPECT/CT for Dosimetry. In: Ahmadzadehfar, H., Biersack, HJ. (eds) Clinical Applications of SPECT-CT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35283-6_2

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