TABLE 2.

Recommending Linear Dosing Guidelines, Critical Organ Dose, and Effective Dose to Healthy Subjects After Administration of ¹⁸F-FDG (83–85)

Patient	Administered activity MBq/kg (mCi/kg)	Organ receiving the largest radiation dose* mGy/MBq (rad/mCi)	Effective dose* mSv/MBq (rem/mCi)
Newborn		—	0.21 (0.77)†
Child (1 y old)	Body: 3.7–5.2 (0.10–0.14) Minimum: 26.0 MBq (0.7 mCi)	Bladder, 0.51 (1.9)	0.080 (0.30)
Child (5 y old)		Bladder, 0.36 (1.3)	0.048 (0.18)
Child (10 y old)		Bladder, 0.24 (0.91)	0.032 (0.13)
Child (15 y old)	Brain: 3.7 (0.10) Minimum: 14 MBq (0.37 mCi)	Bladder, 0.16 (0.60)	0.022 (0.08)
Adult		Bladder, 0.15 (0.49)	0.019 (0.07)

^*Reference (85).

^†Reference (84).