Nuclear Medicine Exam with 100% Correct Answers

Nuclear Medicine Exam with 100%
Correct Answers

Nuclear Medicine demonstrates: - ANS-function

Nuclear Medicine is under the radiology umbrella because: - ANS-radiation is used

Types of radiation used for conventional radiography - ANS-Alpha, Beta, Particulate,
Ionizing

Types of radiation used for nuclear medicine - ANS-Gamma Rays, Nonparticulate

Source of radiation for conventional radiography - ANS-x-ray tube

Source of radiation for nuclear medicine - ANS-patient

Equipment used for conventional radiography - ANS-x-ray tube and image receptor

Equipment used for nuclear medicine - ANS-gamma camera and computer

Conventional radiography images show: - ANS-anatomical area

Nuclear medicine images show: - ANS-area that picked up radionuclides, hot and cold
areas

Year Bequerel discovered radioactivity - ANS-1896

Becquerel discovered: - ANS-naturally occuring radioactive substances

Year of Curies discovery - ANS-1898

Curie discovered: - ANS-polonium and radium, radioactive and radioactivity

1923 - ANS-Georg de Hevesy developed the tracer principle

Radionuclide administered for Heart Scan - ANS-Tc99

During what nuclear medicine scan are patients injected with labeled red blood cells -
ANS-Heart Scan

, Imaging for heart scan - ANS-begins immediately after radionuclides are administered
and lasts for one hour

Radionuclide injected for Thyroid Scan - ANS-Tc99

Radiocuclide administered orally for Thyroid Scan - ANS-I-123

Scanning for Thyroid Scan - ANS-Scanning begins 20 minutes after injection of Tc99
and begins 4-24 hours after oral nuclides are administered

Purpose of Thyroid Scan - ANS-rule out cancer, screen for hyperthyroidism, goiter, a
solid nodule, thyroiditis

Radionuclide administered for Brain Scan - ANS-Tc99 by injection

Scanning for Brain Scan - ANS-begins 1 hour after injection

Purpose of Brain Scan - ANS-Evaluate for stroke, alzheimers, epilepsy, parkinsons
disease

How does nuclear medicine detect cancer? - ANS-Scans for metastasis

Therapeutic nuclear medicine for Cancer Detection - ANS-Sentinel node and thyroid
ablation

sentinel node - ANS-area or node that is adjacent to a tumor

throid ablation - ANS-catheter goes in and will heat up and kill cancer cells

P.E.T. - ANS-Positron Emission Tomography

Positron results in - ANS-the production of 2 gamma rays

1900's - ANS-clinical PET centers began

Commonly used isotopes for PET scans - ANS-Carbon 11, Nitrogen 13, Oxygen 15,
Fluorine 18

Carbon 11 - ANS-Radioactive isotope of carbon that decays 100% into Boron 11 by
positron emission

Half Life of Carbon 11 - ANS-about 20 minutes

Nitrogen 13 - ANS-Isotope of Nitrogen

Half Life of Nitrogen 13 - ANS-about 10 minutes