Performs the imaging procedure and could also involved in

radiation therapy and administer the radionuclide to the patient.

Type of Ionizing particle that is stopped by a sheet of paper or outer layer of skin, which cannot penetrate the skin

It is a type of Radiation that has a sufficient energy to disrupt the DNA strands

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Uses beams of radiation that passes through the body, comes from the outside of the body

Nuclear Medicine are ingested or injected inside the body, while the radiology gives info about physiology.

It is the main nuclear medicine equipment which can scan the heart

Imaged with 131I or 99mTc-pertechnetate, One of the most common requested procedures, The only scan were you can assess if the nodule of interest is

hot or cold

Detect presence of metastasis specific for thyroid cancer and the staging of thyroid cancer

Useful in Oncology planning and management, Uses 99mTc MDP/HDP, A 5% bone turnover can be detected by bone scan while a 50%

minimum mineral loss is required before lesion is visualized on

radiographs

30%-50%

Breast Carcinoma

Detect and diagnose coronary artery disease

“The risk of cardiac death and myocardial infarction in a

patient with a normal stress perfusion study is what?

Which is true for Myocardial Ischemia?

Which is true for Positron Emission Tomography?

Uses 99mTc-sestamibi to detect cancer cells in the breasts

and axillae

Used in patients with abnormal mammograms, dense breasts,

and post-operatively

Evaluate perfusion, cortical, and excretory functions and to evaluate functional transplanted kidney

Help diagnose acute and chronic cholecystitis, biliary atresia

Provide information on post-surgical bile drainage and biliary

leakage

What is given to the patient when ventilation- perfusion mismatch is present?

which is true in Radionuclide Therapies?