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At CereScan, we are supremely aware of any and all risks associated with any level of radiation exposure, no matter how small, to all of our patients. Imaging children presents another set of challenges, and to that end, our staff have lengthy experience in working with and imaging children.
Radiation exposure from High Definition Brain SPECT Imaging is minimal. In 1996, the
Health Physics Society issued a policy statement indicating that while there is substantial and convincing scientific evidence for health risk at higher doses of radiation exposure, "health risks are either too small to be observed or are non-existent" for exposures below 10.0 rem (a rem is a measure of radiation exposure). The whole body dose of a typical brain SPECT imaging procedure is less than that.
In its assessment of risk to children for diagnostic imaging procedures used in clinical and research investigations, the Office of the Clinical Director of the National Institute of Health stated: "Health risks from low-level radiation could not be detected…”
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