Nuclear Medicine Board Review Qs / Exam Questions And Answers

Nuclear Medicine Board Review Qs / Exam Questions And Answers Coughing CPR helps to maintain what? - ANS Helps maintain consciousness. Atropine is an anticholinergic agent used with dobutamine to do what? - ANS Increase heart rate Photopeak efficiency is defined as: - ANS Ratio of net counts in the photopeak to net counts in the entire spectrum. How would you modify the Lasix dose if the patient has compromised renal function? - ANS Dose should be increased. Systeme Internationale (S.I.) is also known as: - ANS International system, metric system. 3.4 Ci is equal to how many uCi? - ANS 3,400,000 uCi "Blunders" are counting errors related to: - ANS Carelessness and/or lack of knowledge or negligence. QC test to assess reproducibility of counter if only 2 observations are available - ANS The relative error Right Coronary Artery (RCA) supplies: - ANS Inferior portion of heart Transient increase in tracer uptake in responding to metastases in the early months after chemotherapy/hormone therapy for breast and prostate cancer. - ANS Flare phenomenon Extraosseous, pulmonary uptake on bone scan seen in patients with: - ANS Radiation pneumonitis Correlation btw # of counts and display intensity is linear. A logarithmic relationship btw # of counts and display intensity... - ANS Enhances low counts. 780 Si = how many rem/s? - ANS 78,000 rems