Radiopharmaceuticals
The most commonly used radiopharmaceutical to image the thyroid
What is I123?
The center portion of the spine
What is the thoracic spine?
Indications that I131 is used to treat (2)
What are thyroid carcinoma and hyperthyroidism?
The amount of uptake time for a typical whole body bone scan
What is 2-4 hours?
5L/min is the output
What is the total cardiac output?
This radiopharmaceutical will normally go to the salivary glands, thyroid, stomach, and bladder
What is Tc99m Pertechnetate?
A gland in the neck that a person normally has four of
What is the parathyroid?
A type of bone infection commonly imaged by performing a three-phase bone scan
What is osteomyelitis?
The orientation we acquire images for a brain death scan with a single-head camera
What is anterior?
The medication a patient receives for a HIDA scan when their liver and gallbladder show up, but not their bowel
What is CCK/Sincalide?
Used for treatment of colorectal cancer liver metastases
The quality a substance must have to pass through an in-tact blood-brain barrier
What is lipophilic?
The name of the indication a patient might get a hepatobiliary scan for
What is cholecystitis?
The location of where we image, as well as the orientation if a patient getting a renal scan has a transplanted kidney
What is anterior over the pelvis?
The Lasix dose that a 56kg adult would receive for a renal scan
What is 28mg?
The radiopharmaceuticals we discussed that we image with a medium energy collimator (2)
What are In111 and Ga67?
The types of cancer that metastasize to bone (5)
What are prostate cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer, and thyroid cancer?
I123 Ioflupane is used to differentiate Parkinsonian Syndromes from this indication
What is Essential Tremor?
The phases for a Xe133 V/Q Scan
What are the wash in, equilibrium, and wash out phases?
The amount of time after injection of Diamox that we image
What is 15 minutes?
Radiopharmaceuticals used for infection imaging (3)
What are Tc99m MDP, Ga67 Citrate, In111 WBCs?
The organ that sends TRH to another organ, which in turn sends TSH to the thyroid
Captopril or Lisinopril can be used to evaluate if a patient has this condition
What is renal vascular hypertension/renal artery stenosis?
The area of the body we place a Co57 marker for a gastric emptying scan
What is the Xyphoid Process?
These factors would reduce the amount of particles a patient receives for a perfusion lung scan (3)
What are pediatric patients, pulmonary hypertension, and a right to left shunt?