QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is it? - CORRECT ANSWER Using radioactive pharmaceuticals + specialized equipment
to help diagnose + treat diseases
Where Can you work? - CORRECT ANSWER Hospitals, clinics, private labs, teaching,
research
How long is the program + who has reserved seats? - CORRECT ANSWER 2.5 years and
Saskatchewan + Manitoba residents
What do the gamma camera images show us? What does this suggest? - CORRECT ANSWER
Where the drugs go and do not go. Suggest where the disease is present.
Substances that gather "hot spots" are called.. - CORRECT ANSWER Tracers or tagged
compounds
If substance is absent the region it is called a... - CORRECT ANSWER Cold spot
Nuclear med is used for... - CORRECT ANSWER - Examining the kidney, heart, lung, thyroid
function
- image blood flow
- assess bones
- detect concert infection
- treat some cancers/other diseases
Theragnostics - CORRECT ANSWER Combination of therapy + diagnostics to treat many
conditions
Pathophysiology - CORRECT ANSWER the study of how disease processes affect the
function of the body