Does administering iodine in radiological procedures increase patient doses?
Adding iodine can result in values of localized absorbed dose increasing by more than an order of magnitude, but the total energy deposition is generally very modest (i.e.,<10%). Their data show that adding iodine primarily changes the pattern of energy deposition in the irradiated region, rather than increasing patient doses per se.
These data demonstrate that mice predicted to die during sepsis have no significant lung injury. In murine intra-abdominal sepsis, pulmonary injury cannot be considered the etiology of death in the acute phase.