Nuclear Medicine Questions and Answers

Nuclear Medicine Questions and Answers Nuclear Medicine demonstrates: - Answer ️️ -function Nuclear Medicine is under the radiology umbrella because: - Answer ️️ -radiation is used Types of radiation used for conventional radiography - Answer ️️ -Alpha, Beta, Particulate, Ionizing Types of radiation used for nuclear medicine - Answer ️️ -Gamma Rays, Nonparticulate Source of radiation for conventional radiography - Answer ️️ -x-ray tube Source of radiation for nuclear medicine - Answer ️️ -patient Equipment used for conventional radiography - Answer ️️ -x-ray tube and image receptor Equipment used for nuclear medicine - Answer ️️ -gamma camera and computer Conventional radiography images show: - Answer ️️ -anatomical area Nuclear medicine images show: - Answer ️️ -area that picked up radionuclides, hot and cold areas Year Bequerel discovered radioactivity - Answer ️️ -1896 Becquerel discovered: - Answer ️️ -naturally occuring radioactive substances Year of Curies discovery - Answer ️️ -1898 Curie discovered: - Answer ️️ -polonium and radium, radioactive and radioactivity 1923 - Answer ️️ -Georg de Hevesy developed the tracer principle Father of Nuclear Medicine - Answer ️️ -Georg de Hevesy 1931 - Answer ️️ -Lawrence invented the cyclotron cyclotron - Answer ️️ -makes regular atoms into radionuclides 1946 - Answer ️️ -Fermi developed nuclear reactors 1958 - Answer ️️ -Anger developed the gamma camera tracer - Answer ️️ -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 - Answer ️️ -radiopharmaceuticals Ways radionuclides enter the body: - Answer ️️ -injected, ingested, inhaled Radionuclides are ___________ to substance that will physiologically go to the body part of interest to act as ___________. - Answer ️️ -tagged;tr