Nuclear Medicine Board Review NMTCB Questions And Answers Rated 100% Correct!!
According to NRC criteria, which of the following is a misadministration?
a. Infiltration of an attempted intravenous injection
b. Administration of 10 mCi I-131 instead of the prescribed 9 mCi
c. Administration of 20 mCi Tc-99m pertechnetate instead of the prescribed 10 mCi
d. Administration of 15 mCi I-131 sodium iodide intravenously instead of orally as prescribed.
e. Administration of 5 mCi Tc-99m sulfur colloid to the wrong patient. Answer- D
Chromatography testing of technetium radiopharmaceuticals is done to check for:
a. Aluminum Contamination
b. Molybdenum breakthrough
c. Radionuclidic purity
d. Radiochemical purity
e. Chemical purity Answer- D
The use of elliptical and/or body contour orbits in SPECT imaging should result in improved:
a. Temporal resolution
b. Spatial resolution
c. Reconstruction times
d. Acquisition times
e. Patient comfort Answer- B
Which of the following variables does not affect spatial resolution in nuclear medicine
imaging systems:
a. Physical design of the collimator
b. Material of which the collimator is constructed
c. Energy of the gamma rays being counted
d. Computer matrix pixel size
e. Byte vs. word acquisition mode Answer- E
Full width at half maximum (FWHM) is often used as a measure of:
a. Uniformity
b. Sensitivity
c. Intensity
d. Resolution
e. Dead time Answer- D
Uncorrected flood field nonuniformities cause ____________ artifacts in tomographic
reconstruction. a. Irregular
b. Dropout
c. Circular
d. Undulating
e. Linear Answer- C
How many 16-bit words of memory are required for a 64 x 64 byte mode image?
a. 2,048
b. 4,096
c. 16,384
d. 32,768
e. 65,535 Answer- A
Areas of prolonged retention of Xe-133 in the lungs are associated with:
a. Reduced trapping in the lung
b. Obstructive lung disease
c. Pulmonary emboli
d. Bacterial pneumonia
e. Septal penetration Answer- B
A patient is to undergo a multiple-gated cardiac blood-pool study with the heart cycle
divided in 20 frames. The patient is in normal sinus rhythm and has a heart rate of 68
bpm. The computer should lock in at what time per frame for this study?
a. 44 milliseconds
b. 56 milliseconds
c. 0.29 seconds
d. 1.5 seconds
e. 3.4 seconds Answer- A
Which of the following myocardial perfusion patterns suggest that the patient has myocardial ischemia:
a. Abnormal resting Tc-MIBI, Abnormal Stress Tc-MIBI
b. Abnormal resting Tc-MIBI, Normal Stress Tl-201
c. Normal resting Tc-MIBI, Normal Stress Tl-201
d. Abnormal resting Tl-201, Abnormal Stress Tc-MIBI
e. Normal resting Tl-201, Abnormal Stress Tl-201 Answer- E
Ventricular depolarization occurs just before the ventricles contract, expelling blood forward into the pulmonary artery and aorta. This action is represented on the EKG strip by:
a. QA complex
b. ST complex
c. QRS complex
d. RS complex
e. PQR complex Answer- C
At what distance is the exposure rate (in mR/hr) indicated by a package's transport index measured?
a. At the surface
b. At 1 meter from the surface
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