Radiopharmaceuticals
The type of collimator used for imaging I131
What is a high energy collimator?
The name of the jaw bone
What is the mandible?
Images for this indication show normal ventilation images, followed by abnormal wedge-shaped artifact on the perfusion images
What is a pulmonary embolism?
A patient must have this within 24hrs of having a V/Q scan
What is a chest Xray?
SPECT is an acronym that stands for this
What is Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography?
Three radiopharmaceuticals that can or have been used for a bone scan
What is Tc99m MDP, Tc99m HDP, Tc99m HMDP, F18 NaF (Old ones: Ca45, P32, Sr85, Tc99m Polyphosphate, Tc99m PYP, Tc99m EHDP)
The three planes for viewing 3D images such as SPECT or CT
What are coronal, sagittal, and axial/transverse/ transaxial?
The term for delayed gastric emptying
What is gastroparesis?
A kidney that does not empty after administration of lasix is
What is obstructed?
This can be used in place of CCK to contract the gallbladder for a HIDA scan
What is Ensure (Or a fatty meal)?
The half-life of Xe133
What is 5.2 days?
The thyroid organifies iodine to create these hormomes
What are T3 and T4?
A patient with neuroblastoma might receive this type of nuclear medicine scan
What is adrenal gland imaging?
The cause of a Bone Scan dose showing intense uptake in the forearm and hand of the injection site
What is an arterial injection (Hot glove)?
Lasix is this type of drug
What is a diuretic?
The infection imaging agent preferred for imaging of the spine
What is Ga67 Citrate?
The adrenal glands sit on top of this organ
What are the kidneys?
A patient should hold off on these types of medications before imaging for neuroendocrine tumors
What are somatostatin analogue/receptor medications?
For a Meckle's Diverticulum Scan, we start acquiring images this long after injection
What is immediately?
The standard gastric emptying meal consists of these items
What are eggs, toast, jam, and water?
The energy peaks we image for In111
What are 173 and 247 keV?
The three types of salivary glands
What are the parotid, submandibular, and sublingual glands?
A patient with xerostomia might get this type of nuclear medicine scan
What is a salivary gland scan?
At 4 hours after a patient eats a gastric emptying meal, we should see at least this percentage of food emptied from the stomach to be considered normal
What is 90%?
The type of collimator used for a thyroid uptake using an uptake probe
What is a flat-field collimator?