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General Principles

  • Are the positron-emitting radionuclides higher-energy emitters than single-photon radionuclides?
  • How are nuclear medicine images obtained?
  • Like a plain radiograph, nuclear medicine produces a 2-dimensional image. How can information on depth be obtained?
  • Provide half-life
  • Provide half-life and photon energies for the following
  • The gamma camera system consists of a collimator, a sodium iodide crystal, photomultiplier tubes, and a computer. What is the function of each of these components in the system?
  • What are planar images?
  • What are the units of activity?
  • What is SPECT?
  • What is activity?
  • What is nuclear medicine?
  • What is the advantage of SPECT?
  • What is the disadvantage of SPECT?

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