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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
22
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-11-2
pubmed:abstractText
With the increasing development of positron emission tomography (PET), beta(+)-emitters are more and more regularly used in nuclear medicine. Therefore, today it is of prime importance to have a reliable description of their behavior in living matter in order to quantify the full spectra of the molecular damages potentially radio-induced and then to access a cellular dosimetry. In this work, we present a detailed inter-comparison of the main isotopes commonly used in PET: (18)F, (11)C, (13)N, (15)O, (68)Ga and (82)Rb. We have used an event-by-event Monte Carlo code recently developed for positron tracking in water (Champion and Le Loirec 2006 Phys. Med. Biol. 51 1707-23) which consists in simulating step-by-step, interaction after interaction, the history of each ionizing particle created during the irradiation of the biological matter. This simulation has been finally adapted for describing the decays of medically important positron emitters. Quantitative information about positron penetrations, Positronium formation, annihilation event distributions, energy deposit patterns and dose profiles is then accessible and compared to published measurements and/or calculations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0031-9155
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
21
pubmed:volume
52
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
6605-25
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Positron follow-up in liquid water: II. Spatial and energetic study for the most important radioisotopes used in PET.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et des Collisions, ICPMB (FR 2843), Institut de Physique, Université Paul Verlaine-Metz, 1 boulevard Arago, 57078 Metz Cedex 3, France. champion@univ-metz.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article