NUCLEAR MEDICINE UPDATED ACTUAL FINAL PAPER
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔SPECT - ✔✔similar to CT/MRI due to its thin slices through organs
✔✔SPECT has how many gamma detectors - ✔✔1 to 3
✔✔SPECT identifies - ✔✔small abnormalities
✔✔SPECT emitts - ✔✔single gamma ray
✔✔Purpose of SPECT - ✔✔cardiac profussion, brain, liver, tumor, bone studies
✔✔Geiger Counter/Geiger Meuller - ✔✔Detection and measuring instrument used to
locate lost radioactive sources and to measure amount left behind
✔✔Primary radiation survey instrument used in nuclear medicine - ✔✔Geiger Counter
✔✔Cutie Pie - ✔✔Inonizing chamber type survey meter used for high intensity sources
✔✔Rules for Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine - ✔✔Wear gloves, use lead or glass
shielding for radionuclides, elimiate spills or clean up immediately, wear extremity and
whold body monitors, do not eat or drint in the hot lab, use ALARA
✔✔Nuclear Medicine - ✔✔medical specialty that focuses on the use of radioactive
materials called radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis, therapy, and medical research.
✔✔ Nuclear Medicine demonstrates: - ✔✔function
✔✔Nuclear Medicine is under the radiology umbrella because: - ✔✔radiation is used
✔✔Types of radiation used for conventional radiography - ✔✔Alpha, Beta, Particulate,
Ionizing
✔✔Types of radiation used for nuclear medicine - ✔✔Gamma Rays, Nonparticulate
✔✔Source of radiation for conventional radiography - ✔✔x-ray tube
✔✔Source of radiation for nuclear medicine - ✔✔patient
✔✔Equipment used for conventional radiography - ✔✔x-ray tube and image receptor
✔✔Equipment used for nuclear medicine - ✔✔gamma camera and computer
, ✔✔Conventional radiography images show: - ✔✔anatomical area
✔✔Nuclear medicine images show: - ✔✔area that picked up radionuclides, hot and cold
areas
✔✔Year Bequerel discovered radioactivity - ✔✔1896
✔✔Becquerel discovered: - ✔✔naturally occuring radioactive substances
✔✔Year of Curies discovery - ✔✔1898
✔✔Curie discovered: - ✔✔polonium and radium, radioactive and radioactivity
✔✔1923 - ✔✔Georg de Hevesy developed the tracer principle
✔✔Father of Nuclear Medicine - ✔✔Georg de Hevesy
✔✔1931 - ✔✔Lawrence invented the cyclotron
✔✔cyclotron - ✔✔makes regular atoms into radionuclides
✔✔1946 - ✔✔Fermi developed nuclear reactors
✔✔1958 - ✔✔Anger developed the gamma camera
✔✔tracer - ✔✔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 - ✔✔radiopharmaceuticals
✔✔Ways radionuclides enter the body: - ✔✔injected, ingested, inhaled
✔✔Radionuclides are ___________ to substance that will physiologically go to the body
part of interest to act as ___________. - ✔✔tagged;tracers
✔✔Scintillator Devices - ✔✔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: - ✔✔gamma camera, well counter, dose
calculator
✔✔Gamma camera - ✔✔main type of device to receive the radiation emitted from
patient for imaging
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔SPECT - ✔✔similar to CT/MRI due to its thin slices through organs
✔✔SPECT has how many gamma detectors - ✔✔1 to 3
✔✔SPECT identifies - ✔✔small abnormalities
✔✔SPECT emitts - ✔✔single gamma ray
✔✔Purpose of SPECT - ✔✔cardiac profussion, brain, liver, tumor, bone studies
✔✔Geiger Counter/Geiger Meuller - ✔✔Detection and measuring instrument used to
locate lost radioactive sources and to measure amount left behind
✔✔Primary radiation survey instrument used in nuclear medicine - ✔✔Geiger Counter
✔✔Cutie Pie - ✔✔Inonizing chamber type survey meter used for high intensity sources
✔✔Rules for Radiation Safety in Nuclear Medicine - ✔✔Wear gloves, use lead or glass
shielding for radionuclides, elimiate spills or clean up immediately, wear extremity and
whold body monitors, do not eat or drint in the hot lab, use ALARA
✔✔Nuclear Medicine - ✔✔medical specialty that focuses on the use of radioactive
materials called radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis, therapy, and medical research.
✔✔ Nuclear Medicine demonstrates: - ✔✔function
✔✔Nuclear Medicine is under the radiology umbrella because: - ✔✔radiation is used
✔✔Types of radiation used for conventional radiography - ✔✔Alpha, Beta, Particulate,
Ionizing
✔✔Types of radiation used for nuclear medicine - ✔✔Gamma Rays, Nonparticulate
✔✔Source of radiation for conventional radiography - ✔✔x-ray tube
✔✔Source of radiation for nuclear medicine - ✔✔patient
✔✔Equipment used for conventional radiography - ✔✔x-ray tube and image receptor
✔✔Equipment used for nuclear medicine - ✔✔gamma camera and computer
, ✔✔Conventional radiography images show: - ✔✔anatomical area
✔✔Nuclear medicine images show: - ✔✔area that picked up radionuclides, hot and cold
areas
✔✔Year Bequerel discovered radioactivity - ✔✔1896
✔✔Becquerel discovered: - ✔✔naturally occuring radioactive substances
✔✔Year of Curies discovery - ✔✔1898
✔✔Curie discovered: - ✔✔polonium and radium, radioactive and radioactivity
✔✔1923 - ✔✔Georg de Hevesy developed the tracer principle
✔✔Father of Nuclear Medicine - ✔✔Georg de Hevesy
✔✔1931 - ✔✔Lawrence invented the cyclotron
✔✔cyclotron - ✔✔makes regular atoms into radionuclides
✔✔1946 - ✔✔Fermi developed nuclear reactors
✔✔1958 - ✔✔Anger developed the gamma camera
✔✔tracer - ✔✔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 - ✔✔radiopharmaceuticals
✔✔Ways radionuclides enter the body: - ✔✔injected, ingested, inhaled
✔✔Radionuclides are ___________ to substance that will physiologically go to the body
part of interest to act as ___________. - ✔✔tagged;tracers
✔✔Scintillator Devices - ✔✔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: - ✔✔gamma camera, well counter, dose
calculator
✔✔Gamma camera - ✔✔main type of device to receive the radiation emitted from
patient for imaging
