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Table 5 Comparison of effective whole body doses for 18F tracers found in the literature

From: Human biodistribution and internal dosimetry of 4-[ 18F]fluorobenzyl-dexetimide: a PET radiopharmaceutical for imaging muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the brain and heart

Author

Tracer

Effective dose (μSv/MBq)

Number of subjects

Measure of error

This work

18F-DEX

19.70±2.27

5

95% CI

ICRP publication 106 [14]

18F-FDG

19.0

  

O’Keefe et al. [15]

18F-BAY94-9172

14.67±1.39

3

SD

Doss et al. [16]

18F-RGD-K5

17.2±0.6

4

SD

Bottlaender et al. [17]

18F-fluoro-A-85380

19.4 (17.8,21.8)

3

Range