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