How accurate do dosages have to be?

Older regulations used to require a therapeutic dosage of radionuclides must be within 10%. Updated regulations for the NRC say that injected dosages must be within 20% of the prescription (or withing the specified range).

Note that this 20% requirement applies to both diagnostic and therapeutic dosages of nuclear material.

For further reading see:

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part035/part035-0063.html

https://www.nrc.gov/materials/miau/med-use-toolkit/faqs-part35.html

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