Nuclear Medicine Chapter 32 question and answers graded A+ 2023 verified

Nuclear Medicine Chapter 32 question and answers graded A+ 2023 verifiedSpecialty that focuses on the use of radioactive materials called radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis therapy and medical research - correct answer Nuclear Medicine Nuclear Medicine studies determine the cause of what - correct answer medical problem based on organ or tissue function or physiology What is a tracer - correct answer Radioactive material Tacer is introduced into the body by what 3 ways - correct answer injection swallowing inhalation How are tracers selected - correct answer Their ability to localize in specific organs or tissue. Radioactive tracers produce ____ from the ______ - correct answer Gamma ray emissions / Organ being studied ______ transforms these emissions into images - correct answer Gamma or scintillations camera Nuclear medicine team consist of - correct answer NM physician NM tech Physicist Pharmacist Who discovered Polonium and Radium - correct answer Marie Curie Marie Curie discoved - correct answer Polonium and Radium Currie also coined the terms - correct answer Radioactive Radioactivity Father of Nuclear Medicine - correct answer Georg De Hevesy Who developed the tracer principle and coined the term radioindicator - correct answer Georg De Hevesy NM first study ever done - correct answer Thyroid Gland Radioactivity - correct answer The radiation of energy in the form of high speed alpha or beta particles or waves (gamma rays) from the nucleus of an atom Basic components of an atom - correct answer protons, neutrons, electrons Protons are - correct answer positive neutrons are - correct answer neutral Electrons are - correct answer negative Isotopes are - correct answer elements with the same number of protons but different number of neutrons Decay is the process - correct answer in which energy is released in various forms whereby an unstable atom attempts to regain stability