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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2013 Mar 20;54(6):855–860. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.112.114165

TABLE 2.

Estimated Organ-Specific Dose and ED

Target organ Estimated radiation dose (mSv/MBq)
Average SD Percentage coefficient of variation
Adrenals 1.46E−02 5.18E−04 3.55E+00
Brain 9.86E−03 5.46E−04 5.54E+00
Breasts 9.96E−03 4.26E−04 4.28E+00
Gallbladder wall 1.49E−02 6.77E−04 4.54E+00
Lower large intestine wall 1.29E−02 8.43E−04 6.52E+00
Small intestine 1.38E−02 2.60E−03 1.88E+01
Stomach wall 1.38E−02 6.47E−04 4.68E+00
Upper large intestine wall 1.29E−02 4.23E−04 3.29E+00
Heart wall 1.23E−02 3.93E−04 3.21E+00
Kidneys 9.21E−02 2.84E−02 3.08E+01
Liver 4.50E−02 1.52E−02 3.38E+01
Lungs 1.15E−02 3.52E−04 3.06E+00
Muscle 1.13E−02 4.47E−04 3.96E+00
Ovaries 1.31E−02 8.32E−04 6.35E+00
Pancreas 1.67E−02 1.37E−03 8.20E+00
Pituitary gland 4.16E−02 3.20E−02 7.70E+01
Hematopoietic cells 9.61E−03 3.47E−04 3.61E+00
Bone-forming cells 1.55E−02 7.39E−04 4.76E+00
Salivary glands 1.17E−02 7.82E−03 6.68E+01
Skin 9.66E−03 4.24E−04 4.39E+00
Spleen 2.82E−01 1.21E−01 4.28E+01
Testes 1.12E−02 6.78E−04 6.06E+00
Thymus 1.09E−02 4.93E−04 4.51E+00
Thyroid 1.87E−02 1.05E−02 5.65E+01
Urinary bladder wall 1.25E−01 6.18E−02 4.96E+01
Uterus (estimated)* 1.47E−02 1.56E−03 1.06E+01
Total body 1.34E−02 2.83E−04 2.11E+00
ED 2.57E−02 2.85E−03 1.11E+01
*

Uterus dosimetry is estimated because all subjects were men.