Nuclear Medicine Board Review Graded A 2024 Questions

Coughing CPR helps to maintain what? - Helps maintain consciousness. Atropine is a anticholinergic agent used with dobutamine to do what? - Increase heart rate Photopeak efficiency is defined as: - Ratio of net counts in the photopeak to net counts in the entire spectrum. How would you modify the Lasix dose if the patient has compromised renal function? - Dose should be increased. Systeme Internationale (S.I.) is also known as: - International system, metric system. 3.4 Ci is equal to how many uCi? - 3,400,000 uCi "Blunders" are counting errors related to: - Carelessness and/or lack of knowledge or negligence. QC test to assess reproducibility of counter if only 2 observations are available - The relative error Right Coronary Artery (RCA) supplies: - Inferior portion of heart Transient increase in tracer uptake in responding to metastases in the early months after chemotherapy/hormone therapy for breast and prostate cancer. - Flare phenomenon Extraosseous, pulmonary uptake on bone scan seen in patients with: - Radiation pneumonitis Correlation btw # of counts and display intensity is linear. A logarithmic relationship btw # of counts and display intensity... - Enhances low counts. 780 Si = how many rem/s? - 78,000 rems Effective Dose - Overall health effects of irradiation of the whole body taking into account absorbed doses received by various organs and tissues. The adrenal medulla synthesizes and secretes: - Catecholamines