The essential steps are explained in calculating a radiation dose for radionuclide therapy from imaging data. As the dose alone is a meaningless value, its consequences in tumour cell kill efficiency and normal tissue damage are explained. The influence of dose rate and inhomogeneous dose distributions are discussed.

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Department of Nuclear Medicine

Konijnenberg, M. (2011). From imaging to dosimetry and biological effects. Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (Vol. 55, pp. 44–56). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/86245