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[en] In nuclear medicine, radiopharmaceuticals are distributed in the body through biokinetic processes. Thus, each organ can become a source of radiation delivering a fraction of emitted energy in tissues. Therefore, dose calculations must be assessed accurately and realistically to ensure the patient radiation protection. Absorbed doses were until now based on mathematical standard models and electron transport approximations. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) has recently adopted voxel phantoms as a more realistic representation of the reference adult. The main goal of this thesis was to study the influence of the use of the new reference models and Monte Carlo methods on the major dosimetric quantities. In addition, the contribution of patients? specific geometry to the absorbed dose was compared to a standard geometry, enabling the evaluation of uncertainties arising from the reference values. Particular attention was paid to the bone marrow which is characterized by a high radiosensitivity and a complex microscopic structure. An accurate alpha dosimetry was assessed for bone marrow using microscopic images of several trabecular bone sites. The results showed variations in the absorbed fractions as a function of the particles? energy, the skeletal site and the amount of fat within marrow cavities, three parameters which are not taken into account in the values published by the ICRP. Finally, the heterogeneous activity distribution of the radiopharmaceuticals was considered within the framework of the treatment of a hepato-cellular carcinoma with selective internal radiotherapy using Yttrium-90 through the analysis of dose-volume histograms. The developments made in this thesis show the importance and the feasibility of performing a personalized dosimetry for nuclear medicine patients. (author)
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Optimisation de la radioprotection en medecine nucleaire: de la dosimetrie de reference a la dosimetrie personnalisee
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9 Sep 2011; 305 p; 341 refs.; Available from the INIS Liaison Officer for France, see the 'INIS contacts' section of the INIS website for current contact and E-mail addresses: http://www.iaea.org/INIS/contacts/; These physique radiologique et medicale
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ANIMAL CELLS, ANIMAL TISSUES, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BODY, CALCULATION METHODS, COMPUTER CODES, DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, DOSES, DOSIMETRY, DRUGS, HEMATOPOIETIC SYSTEM, HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI, IRRADIATION, ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES, ISOTOPES, KINETICS, LABELLED COMPOUNDS, MATERIALS, MEDICINE, MOCKUP, NUCLEI, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, ORGANS, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, RADIOISOTOPES, SIMULATION, SOMATIC CELLS, STRUCTURAL MODELS, YTTRIUM ISOTOPES
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