Low-Dose Radiation to COVID-19 Patients to Ease the Disease Course and Reduce the Need of Intensive Care

Høilund‐Carlsen, Poul Flemming; Braad, Poul-Erik; Gerke, Oke; Iversen, Kasper; Vach, Werner

doi:10.2967/jnumed.120.251892

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“…The atomic bomb survivors and former workers in nuclear industries also revealed the possibility of hormesis. Interestingly, a recent report declared that low-dose radiation can ease the disease course and reduce the need of intensive care for COVID-19 patients [ 28 ]. Despite this, most of the general public still believe the LNT model because it is easy to assume the potential effects of low-dose irradiation in human beings.…”

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Very-Low-Dose Radiation and Clinical Molecular Nuclear Medicine

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Emerging molecular and precision medicine makes nuclear medicine a de facto choice of imaging, especially in the era of target-oriented medical care. Nuclear medicine is minimally invasive, four-dimensional (space and time or dynamic space), and functional imaging using radioactive biochemical tracers in evaluating human diseases on an anatomically configured image. Many radiopharmaceuticals are also used in therapies. However, there have been concerns over the emission of radiation from the radionuclides, resulting in wrongly neglecting the potential benefits against little or any risks at all of imaging to the patients. The sound concepts of radiation and radiation protection are critical for promoting the optimal use of radiopharmaceuticals to patients, and alleviating concerns from caregivers, nuclear medicine staff, medical colleagues, and the public alike.

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