Nuclear Medicine Quiz

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Test your knowledge of nuclear medicine!

What school or college do you attend? *

Radioactive materials can be used in medical diagnosis and therapy. What is the name used to describe the number of unstable nuclei that decay each second? *

1 point

Half-life

Dose

Activity

A medical physicist working in a hospital is a....? *

1 point

Registered Clinical Doctor

Registered Clinical Scientist

Retrained Clinical Scientist

Which properties of radioactive materials are desirable when they are used for radionuclide (internal) therapy? *

1 point

Alpha emitter with a short half-life

Alpha emitter with a long half-life

Gamma emitter with a long half-life

Select all the components that are in a gamma camera *

4 points

Collimator

Scintillator detectors

Photomultiplier Tubes

Piezoelectric crystals

Computer

Transducer

Required

What does absorbed dose in a patient represent?

1 point

The amount of energy absorbed in the patient per unit mass

The total number of nuclear decays in the patient

The biological damage of tissue.

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A patient is injected with ⁹⁹ᵐTc that has an initial activity of 250 MBq. Given that each gamma ray photon has energy 2.2x10⁻¹⁴J, calculate the initial rate of energy emission.

1 point

1.1x10⁻⁵ (J s⁻¹)

5.5x10⁻⁶ (J s⁻¹)

1.1x10⁻⁶ (J s⁻¹)

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A different patient is injected with ⁹⁹ᵐTc at 11am. If the activity of the sample was 37 MBq at 9am and the half-life of ⁹⁹ᵐTc is 6 hours, what will the activity of the sample be when it is injected to the patient?

2 points

3.7 (MBq)

29.4 (MBq)

21.1 (MBq)

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SPECT can be used for which of the following diagnostic purposes ? There could be more than one correct answer... *

2 points

Assessing Coronary artery disease

Identifying cancerous cells and tumours

Investigating the development of a fetus during pregnancy

Visualising a broken bone

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Which nuclear medicine technique does the image illustrate? *

1 point

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT)

Selective Internal Radiation Therapy (SIRT)

Which one of the following equations represents the relationship between effective half-life (TE), Biological half-life (TB) and Physical Half life (TP)? *

1 point

Equation 1:

Equation 2:

Equation 3:

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