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Internal Dosimetry

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Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PET

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The science of internal dosimetry is a specialty within the general field of health physics. A working definition of health physics might be “the protection of people and their environment from the harmful effects of radiation while allowing its beneficial applications.” In any application involving the use of ionizing radiation, the risks of its use must be balanced against its benefits. In medical uses of radiation, the benefits are immediately obvious and are directly received by the person who is exposed to the risk. This makes the balancing process considerably easier than, for example, in the use of nuclear power, where a small number of people incur a risk so that a broad region can receive a benefit.The evaluation of this balance, however, cannot occur without some quanti- fication of the risks. Internal dosimetry calculations provide estimates of the amount of radiation that is absorbed by different organs or organ systems. The assignment of a risk to a given radiation dose estimate is not a clear-cut procedure, but without the absorbed dose estimate it cannot be attempted.

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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston

    S. T. Treves MD (Chief, Professor of Radiology) (Chief, Professor of Radiology)

  2. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    S. T. Treves MD (Chief, Professor of Radiology) (Chief, Professor of Radiology)

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Stabin, M.G. (2007). Internal Dosimetry. In: Treves, S.T. (eds) Pediatric Nuclear Medicine/PET. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32322-0_20

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