Technical Note: Simplified and practical pretherapy tumor dosimetry - A feasibility study for I-MIBG therapy of neuroblastoma using I-MIBG PET/CT.

Purpose: Radiation dose calculated on tumors for radiopharmaceutical therapy varies significantly from tumor to tumor and from patient to patient. Accurate estimation of radiation dose requires multiple time point measurements using radionuclide imaging modalities such as SPECT or PET. In this report, we show our technical development of reducing the number of scans needed for reasonable estimation of tumor and normal organ dose in our pretherapy imaging and dosimetry platform of I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for I-MIBG therapy of neuroblastoma.