Age-specific calibration for in vivo monitoring of thyroid: is it necessary?

Usually, an age-specific calibration of detectors used for in vivo monitoring of I thyroid radioactivity is not performed in practice. This study aimed to investigate the reduction in uncertainty that one can expect if an age-specific calibration is performed. For this, voxel and stylized computational phantoms of the thyroid, corresponding to children at different age groups, were used to simulate the calibration process of I detectors used for thyroid monitoring.