Official websites use .gov
A
.gov website belongs to an official
government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you've safely
connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive
information only on official, secure websites.
Estimated annual collective doses from nuclear medicine, for five specific organs and for the whole body. The estimate for the whole body is a weighted average of the estimates for specific organs, using the tissue-weighting factors recommended by the ICRP. These were chosen to represent approximately the relative contributions from different organs to the total number of radiation-induced cancers that would arise following uniform irradiation of the whole body (ICRP, 2007).
