Nuclear Medicine Exam Study Questions and Answers 2024

Nuclear Medicine demonstrates: - function Nuclear Medicine is under the radiology umbrella because: - radiation is used Types of radiation used for conventional radiography - Alpha, Beta, Particulate, Ionizing Types of radiation used for nuclear medicine - Gamma Rays, Nonparticulate Source of radiation for conventional radiography - x-ray tube Source of radiation for nuclear medicine - patient Equipment used for conventional radiography - x-ray tube and image receptor Equipment used for nuclear medicine - gamma camera and computer Conventional radiography images show: - anatomical area Nuclear medicine images show: - area that picked up radionuclides, hot and cold areas Year Bequerel discovered radioactivity - 1896 Becquerel discovered: - naturally occuring radioactive substances Year of Curies discovery - 1898 Curie discovered: - polonium and radium, radioactive and radioactivity 1923 - Georg de Hevesy developed the tracer principle Father of Nuclear Medicine - Georg de Hevesy 1931 - Lawrence invented the cyclotron