The escalating incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) in pediatric patients and the resultant growing use of radioactive iodine (RAI) reinforce the need to evaluate radiation exposure to normal tissues and radiation-induced health risks in pediatric patients undergoing RAI therapy. In the current study, we calculated absorbed dose coefficients (i.e. absorbed dose per unit activity administered, mGy MBq) specific for pediatric patients with localized DTC undergoing RAI therapy following total thyroidectomy for use in epidemiological studies. We first modified previously-published biokinetic models for adult thyroid cancer patients to achieve a reasonable agreement with iodine biokinetics observed in pediatric patients or design principles addressed in the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) reference age-specific biokinetic models. We then combined the biokinetic models in conjunction withvalues derived from ICRP reference pediatric voxel phantoms. The absorbed dose coefficients for pediatric patients were overall greater than those for adults with a ratio (pediatric/adult) up to 11.6 and rapidly decreased with increasing age. The sensitivity analysis showed that the renal clearance rate andvalues may have the greatest impact on the absorbed dose coefficients with the rank correlation coefficients ranging from -0.53 to -0.82 (negative correlations) and from 0.51 to 0.80 (positive correlations), respectively. The results of the current study may be utilized in clinical or epidemiological studies to estimate organ-specific radiation absorbed doses and radiation-associated health risks among pediatric thyroid cancer patients.
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