Nuclear Medicine Exam 1 with
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1896 - ANS-What year did Becquerel discover radioactivity?
1898 - ANS-What year did Marie Curie discover radium?
1895 - ANS-What year did Roentgen discover x-rays?
1913 - ANS-What year did Georg de Hevesy use his radioactive soufflé?
1927 - ANS-What year did Blumgart perform the first human use aqueous radon to
monitor blood flow?
1930s - ANS-When did Marie Curie and her husband Joliet discover artificial
radioactivity?
1930s - ANS-When did Ernest Lawrence build the first cyclotron (linear accelerator)?
1939 - ANS-What year did Segre and Seaborg discover Tc-99m?
1951 - ANS-What year was I-131 (the first radiopharmaceutical to be approved)
approved by the FDA?
1953 - ANS-What year did Brownell and Sweet build the first positron (PET) detector?
1958 - ANS-What year did Hal Anger build the fist scintillation detector (gamma
camera)?
1960s - ANS-When was emission reconstruct tomography (ECT) discovered by David
Kuhl which lead to CT?
1980s
(was not FDA approved until a decade later) - ANS-When was immunologic tumor
imaging with monoclonal antibodies investigated?
1 Ci= 3.7x10^10 Bq (or dps) - ANS-Convert 1 Curie to Bequerel.
JRCNMT - ANS-Name the organization that accredits nuclear medicine technology
educational programs.
Accurate Solutions
1896 - ANS-What year did Becquerel discover radioactivity?
1898 - ANS-What year did Marie Curie discover radium?
1895 - ANS-What year did Roentgen discover x-rays?
1913 - ANS-What year did Georg de Hevesy use his radioactive soufflé?
1927 - ANS-What year did Blumgart perform the first human use aqueous radon to
monitor blood flow?
1930s - ANS-When did Marie Curie and her husband Joliet discover artificial
radioactivity?
1930s - ANS-When did Ernest Lawrence build the first cyclotron (linear accelerator)?
1939 - ANS-What year did Segre and Seaborg discover Tc-99m?
1951 - ANS-What year was I-131 (the first radiopharmaceutical to be approved)
approved by the FDA?
1953 - ANS-What year did Brownell and Sweet build the first positron (PET) detector?
1958 - ANS-What year did Hal Anger build the fist scintillation detector (gamma
camera)?
1960s - ANS-When was emission reconstruct tomography (ECT) discovered by David
Kuhl which lead to CT?
1980s
(was not FDA approved until a decade later) - ANS-When was immunologic tumor
imaging with monoclonal antibodies investigated?
1 Ci= 3.7x10^10 Bq (or dps) - ANS-Convert 1 Curie to Bequerel.
JRCNMT - ANS-Name the organization that accredits nuclear medicine technology
educational programs.