TABLE 2.

Organ Doses and Effective Doses (mSv/MBq) After Injection of ⁶⁸Ga-Citrate

Organ	Mean ± SD	COV (%)	Range
Adrenals	0.019 ± 0.001	4	0.018–0.020
Brain	0.004 ± 0.001	12	0.004–0.005
Breasts	0.013 ± 0.000	2	0.012–0.013
Colon, left	0.021 ± 0.002	7	0.019–0.023
Colon, right	0.017 ± 0.001	4	0.016–0.018
Esophagus	0.015 ± 0.000	2	0.015–0.016
Eyes	0.011 ± 0.000	3	0.010–0.011
Gallbladder wall	0.017 ± 0.001	6	0.016–0.019
Heart wall	0.077 ± 0.008	11	0.067–0.087
Kidneys	0.036 ± 0.004	12	0.031–0.041
Liver	0.033 ± 0.005	16	0.029–0.043
Lungs	0.036 ± 0.003	8	0.031–0.040
Osteogenic cells	0.017 ± 0.001	6	0.015–0.018
Pancreas	0.020 ± 0.007	36	0.015–0.034
Prostate	0.013 ± 0.000	2	0.012–0.013
Rectum	0.020 ± 0.001	7	0.018–0.022
Red marrow	0.020 ± 0.001	5	0.019–0.022
Salivary glands	0.012 ± 0.000	3	0.011–0.012
Small intestine	0.022 ± 0.002	11	0.019–0.025
Spleen	0.032 ± 0.007	23	0.025–0.044
Stomach wall	0.024 ± 0.004	15	0.018–0.027
Testes	0.022 ± 0.003	13	0.019–0.026
Thymus	0.016 ± 0.000	2	0.016–0.017
Thyroid	0.017 ± 0.002	14	0.014–0.021
Urinary bladder wall	0.039 ± 0.010	26	0.029–0.057
Total body	0.015 ± 0.000	1	0.014–0.015
Effective dose, ICRP 60 (27)	0.023 ± 0.001	3	0.021–0.023
Effective dose, ICRP 103 (20)	0.021 ± 0.001	3	0.020–0.022

COV = coefficient of variation (SD/mean × 100); ICRP = International Commission on Radiological Protection.