Steve's Nuclear Medicine Exam Questions with correct answers

Before tracer administration, all of the following preparations are required for a 27- year- old woman referred for total-body bone imaging except Answer removing attenuating materials from the patient Which of the following structures normally appear as areas of increase activity on the bone images of children Answer costochondral junctions and epiphyseal plates If the tracer concentration is visualized in the skeleton, stomach, thyroid, and salivary glands on a bone image, the most likely explanation for these findings is that the: Answer radiopharm. contained excess free pertechnetate For interpretation of NucMed lung images, a chest x-ray is required for Answer rule out possible causes of the patient symptoms The purpose of a charcoal filter in a xenon delivery unit is to absorb Answer xenon gas Radionuclide venography may be performed with which of the following radiopharms. Answer 99mTc-MAA or RBCs If the ectopic thyroid tissue is suspected the tech. can expect to find it most commonly in which of the following areas? Answer at the base of the tongue or the mediastinum