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NUCLEAR MEDICINE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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NUCLEAR MEDICINE QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Nuclear Medicine demonstrates: - ANSWER function
Nuclear Medicine is under the radiology umbrella because: - ANSWER radiation is used
Types of radiation used for conventional radiography - ANSWER Alpha, Beta, Particulate, Ionizing
Types of radiation used for nuclear medicine - ANSWER Gamma Rays, Nonparticulate
Source of radiation for conventional radiography - ANSWER x-ray tube
Source of radiation for nuclear medicine - ANSWER patient
Equipment used for conventional radiography - ANSWER x-ray tube and image receptor
Equipment used for nuclear medicine - ANSWER gamma camera and computer
Conventional radiography images show: - ANSWER anatomical area
Nuclear medicine images show: - ANSWER area that picked up radionuclides, hot and cold areas
Year Bequerel discovered radioactivity - ANSWER 1896
Becquerel discovered: - ANSWER naturally occuring radioactive substances
Year of Curies discovery - ANSWER 1898
Curie discovered: - ANSWER polonium and radium, radioactive and radioactivity
, 1923 - ANSWER Georg de Hevesy developed the tracer principle
Father of Nuclear Medicine - ANSWER Georg de Hevesy
1931 - ANSWER Lawrence invented the cyclotron
cyclotron - ANSWER makes regular atoms into radionuclides
1946 - ANSWER Fermi developed nuclear reactors
1958 - ANSWER Anger developed the gamma camera
tracer - ANSWER radioactive material added to a radionuclide so that it will be picked up by certain areas
in the body
Radionuclides are prepared in compounds called - ANSWER radiopharmaceuticals
Ways radionuclides enter the body: - ANSWER injected, ingested, inhaled
Radionuclides are ___________ to substance that will physiologically go to the body part of interest to
act as ___________. - ANSWER tagged;tracers
Scintillator Devices - ANSWER transform gamma emmisions into images that provide information about
the function and anatomy of the organ or system being studied.
3 examples of scintillator devices: - ANSWER gamma camera, well counter, dose calculator
Gamma camera - ANSWER main type of device to receive the radiation emitted from patient for imaging
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