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| ___ discovered two new elements, polonium and radium in ___ |
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considered the father of nuclear medicine
developed tracer principle
coined the term radioindicator |
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| invented the cyclotron device to produce man made radioactive tracers |
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| introduced the Gamma camera |
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| developed a crude single photon emission computed tomography camera which allowed creation of 3D images |
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| David Edwards and Roy Kuhl (1960) |
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| SPECT imaging became standard practice in __ |
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| focuses of the use of radioactive materials for diagnosis, therapy, and medical research |
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| radioactive drug used for diagnosis or therapy |
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| radioactive isotope used to allow a biological process to be seen |
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| a __ is introduced into the body, ___ to a specific substance, and is then followed by a __ as it passes through various organs or systems |
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| a device that uses the emission of light from a crystal stuck by gamma rays to produce an image of the distribution of radiactive material in a body organ |
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| gamma or scintillation camera |
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| gamma/scintillation camera transforms gamma ray emissions into images of ___ and ___ of organ/system |
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| creates transaxial images of organ physiology |
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| occurs when a positron interacts with a free electron |
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| a PET gantry may have __ to __ rings, each ring has as many as ___ detectors |
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| detectors receive simultaneous detection of _____ emitted from the body |
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| a pair of annihilation photons |
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| images that relates anatomic position |
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| functional or parametric image |
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| an atomic species with a particular arrangement of protons and neutrons in the nucleus |
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| elements with the same number of protons and electrons, but a different number of neutrons |
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| determines the stability of atom |
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| process that occurs when atoms attempt to regain stability |
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| decay schemes are __ to each radionuclide |
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| the time it takes for a quanitity of a particular radionuclide to decay to one half of its original activity |
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| produced in reactors or particle accelerators |
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| naturally occuring radionuclides have ___ half-lives |
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| ___ make shortlived daughter radionuclides formed by the decay of longer-lived parent radionuclides available |
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| molybdenum-99 is the parent radionuclide of |
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| radiopharmaaceuticals are __ and ___-free and have two components ___ and ___ |
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sterile, pyrogen
radionuclide, pharmaceutical |
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| can be bound to biologically active compounds or drugs to create a radiopharmaceutical |
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| a measure of radioactivity that corresponds to the decay rate |
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-collimator
-crystal and light pipe
-detector electronics
-computer |
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| an acquisition of a single image of a particular structure |
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| specifically designed moving detector produces image of whole body |
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| displays the distribution of radiopharmaceutical over a specified period |
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| creates thin slices of an organ similar to CT and MRI |
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| combination of functional imaging of SPECT with anatomical landmarks of CT |
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| survey to evaluate patients with diffuse musculoskeletal symptoms, metabolic disorders, or malignancies |
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| noninvasive studies that assess cardiac performance |
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| document extent of involvement of brain by tumors, and determine progression or regression of lesions |
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| for a thyroid scan ____ or ___ can be used |
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99mTc pertechnetate or
123Iodine |
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| ___ offers less radiation |
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| radioiodine is concentrated by the thyroid glad that reflects the ability of the glad to handle ____ |
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| the higher the uptake of 131I, the __ the thyroid |
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| the __ the uptake of 131I, the less functional the gland |
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| nuclear medicine offers reliable, noninvasive procedures for evaluating the anatomy and fuction of __, __, and __ with dynamic renal scan |
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| nephrology, urology, kidney |
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| radioiodine is a treatment in practically all adults with ____ |
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| a high dose of 131Iodine therapy is used in patients with ___ |
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| residual thyroid cancer or metastases |
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| ___ is used in the treatment of polycythemia disease |
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| phoshporus-32 in form of sodium phosphate |
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