Current pediatric administered activity guidelines for 99mTc‐DMSA SPECT based on patient weight do not provide the same task‐based image quality

PURPOSE: In the current clinical practice, administered activity (AA) for pediatric molecular imaging is often based on the North American expert consensus guidelines or the European Association of Nuclear Medicine dosage card, both of which were developed based on the best clinical practice. These guidelines were not formulated using a rigorous evaluation of diagnostic image quality (IQ) relative to AA. In the guidelines, AA is determined by a …