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A neutron undergoes B- decay, what is generated?

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Proton, electron, and anti-neutrino (p+e-+~v)

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What are two elements that undergo B- decay?

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99Mo42

131I53

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What are the decay products from 99Mo42?

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99mTc43 + e- + ~v

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Decay products from 131I53?

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131Xe54 + e- + ~v

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What happens in B+ decay?

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A proton decays to neutron, positron, and neutrino

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P –> n + e(+) + v

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B+ decay

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What are 2 elements that undergo B+ decay?

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18F9

15O8

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Products of 18F9 decay?

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18O8 + e(+) + v

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Products of 15O8?

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15N7 + e(+) + v

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What are the two annihilation formulas?

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e- + e+ = 2y

e- + B+ = 2y

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How much energy does each Y have after annihilation?

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511 KeV

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What element did they describe as undergoing Isomeric transition?

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99mTc43

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What’s another name for isomeric transition?

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y decay

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What is left after 99mTc43 undergoes gamma decay?

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99Tc43 + y

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How is an Auger electron produced?

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Filling of an inner shell vacancy of an atom is accompanied by emission of an electron from the same atom. Most often a photon is released by occasionally an electron is ejected.

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Describe the primary and secondary effects of electron capture.

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Primary: orbital electron is absorbed into nucleus and combined with proton to form a neutron and neutrino.

Secondary: emissionof x ray or Auger electrons

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Formula for disintigration rate at time t?

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A(t) = lambda * N(t)
A(t): disinitegration rate at t in decays per sec
N(t) = # nuclei at time t
lambda = ln2/half life (T1/2) = 0.693/half life

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half life of Tc-99?

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6 hr

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lambda for Tc-99?

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0.116

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SI unit of decay?

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Becquerel = 1 disintegration per second

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Traditional unit of radioactivity?

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Curies (Ci)

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How many decays per second in 1 Ci?

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3.7x10^10 dps (not damage per second yo, or is it… hmm)

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1 mCi = XX MBq?

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1mCi = 37 MBq

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1 gy (gray) = How many rad?

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1Gy = 100 Rad

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Units of Gy?
Joules/kg
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What is effective half life?
Time to reduce radiopharmaceutical in the body by one half due to functional clearance and radioactive decay
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Effective half life formula?
1/Te = 1/Tp + 1/Tb or Te = (Tp * Tb)/(Tp+Tb)
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When can you cut the crap with effective half life and make a bunch of assumptions without getting fucked?
IF Tp >> Tb, then Te ~ Tb and, conversely Tb >> Tp, then Te ~ Tp
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In a Tc-99m/Mo-99 generator, the time of maximum activity is approximately?
24 hours
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Elution: Eluate: Eluant:
Elution: The process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent Eluate: A liquid solution from eluting Eluant: A substance used as a solvent in separating materials in elution (saline)
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Radionuclides that undergo B+ decay?
``` 11C 13N 15O 18F 82Rb ```
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Radionuclides that undergo B- decay?
``` 32P 89Sr 99Mo42 131I 153Sm ```
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Radionuclides that undergo EC decay?
``` 111In 67 Ga 123I 125I 201Tl ```
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Types of Radiation detectors? 7 of them
``` Survey meters (gas-filled detector) Ionization chambers (IC) Geiger Müeller (GM) Dose calibrator (gas-filled detector) Well counter (scintillation detector) Thyroid probe (scintillation detector) Miniature g-probe (scintillation) ```
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In a gas filled ionization chamber, what are the Bias voltage ranges for the followin regions: - Recombination region? - Ionization Chamber region? - Proportional counter region? - Geiger counter region? - Spontaneous discharge?
Recombination region: <300 V Ionization chamber region: 300 V - 600V Proportional counter region: 600V -- 900V Geiger counter region: 900V - 1200V Spontaneous Discharge region: >1200V but we really don't give a shit about this one
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Describe how signal strength is related to energy deposited in the ionization chamber region.
In IC region signal strength is proportional to energy deposited.
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What is the IC region used to measure?
The amount of radiation (i.e. exposure, air kerma)
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What does a dose calibrator measure? When do we use it?
Activity only | Use to assay every patient dose prior to administration.
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``` Dose calibrators have quality control measures including: Constancy Linearity Accuracy Geometry How often are each measured? ```
Constancy: Daily Linearity: quarterly Accuracy: Yearly Geometry: On install
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In the GM region, how are signal strength and energy deposited related?
In this region signal strength and deposited energy are independent of each other.
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Which IC detectors are stable with respect to voltage?
Ionization detector and Geiger counter
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Which IC detectors are capable of energy discrimination?
Ionization detector and proportional counter
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What are the main components of a scinitillation detector?
Scintillator photomultiplier tube NM - inorganic solid scintillator (Nal(TI)) and a PMT
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What is the purpose of a collimator?
establish position relationship between gamma photon source and detector
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Purpose of scintillator?
convert gamma photons to blue light photons
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A pmt is for?
converting blue photons to electrons and increasing the number there-of
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The electronic devices measure: Pulse height analysis position analysis These tell us what?
Pulse height: est. energy deposited in each detection and enables scatter rejection. Position: center of luminescent intensity
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Types of collimators? | Which are specifically for certain organs, and what organs?
Parallel hole collimator (most used) Pin-hole: for thyroid Converging: for brain and heart
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How is signal position determined?
Center of mass calculation avg. X = SUM(Signal * distance)/SUMSignal see slides for better equation
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What does back projection of sinogram data lead to?
Blurring in image - streaks and star like artifacts
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Types of iterative reconstruction?
1. Filtered back projection (may not be a type of this, slide is unclear) 2. MLEM: Maximum liklihood expectation maximization 3. OSEM: Ordered Subsets expectation maximization (common algorithm)
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Type of iterative recon used commonly for PET, SPECT and CT?
OSEM
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In PET, at what delta t does a coincident event register?
delta t <5 (to 12) ns
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What B+ emitters are used in PET? | What do they decay to?
``` 18F9 --> 18O8 15O8 --> 15N7 13N7 --> 13C6 11C6 --> 11B5 82 Rb37 --> 82Kr36 And associated e+ and v for each. ```
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What determines the ULTIMATE spatial resolution in PET?
Uncertainties in annihilation: annihilation location and residual particle momentum. ~2mm
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true or false, true coincidences for a true distribution of radioactivity
True, duh
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What types of collimators are incorporated into PET scanner? For what are they used? What are their limitations? What is the typical material? What is the average weight of each collimator? What is the average wing speed of an african swallow?
No collimators in a PET scanner
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What does the absence of lead collimators do for PET?
improves: Detection efficiency (count rate) spatial resolution
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``` Detector materials used by: GE? Seimens? Philips? All? ```
GE: BGO Semens: LSO Philips: GSO All: LYSO
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What are the advantages of PET? How so?
No collimators --> higher count rate/detection efficiency and better spatial resolution Ring detectors --> higher detection efficiency Block detectors --> higher detection efficiency and better spatial resolution
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Time of flight improves?
spatial resolution by compensating for intrinsically conserved momentum of coincident gamma photons
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What scintillator material is used for time of flight? | What is the accuracy?
LYSO | 8.8 cm of accuracy
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ToF is used to...
improve signal to noise ratio, leading to either better images or shorter scans
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What types of PET data corrections are done? Which is most important? What do they do? Hint, there are 5.
Attenuation: most important, CT based Normalization: corrects for variable detector performance Random coincidences: delays coincident time window - 64ns scattered radiation: models transmission and emission data and extrapolates from tails of projections dead time: generates empirical models (whatever the fuck those are in this context)
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Semiquantatative PET uses standard uptake value which is defined as?
ratio of activity concentrations or SUV = conc. in lesion/conc. in whole body (each is in MBq/kg)
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What is the usual cut-off between malignant and non-malignant pathology?
SUV ~ 2.5
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SUV will depend on?
``` physiologic condition uptake time fasting state image noise resolution ROI definition ```
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Every PET study is compensated for attenuation, what is needed for this?
attenuation map from CT
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What does absorbed dose refer to? | The units for this are?
Absorbed dose is the energy deposited in a unit mass of absorber. 1 Gy = 1J/kg 1 Gy = 100 rad
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What is equivalent dose?
HT (In seiverts), this is a quantity that expresses absorbed dose across an organ or tissue with a weighting factor for type and energy of radiation.
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Traditional unit of equivalent dose? SI unit? Conversion factor?
``` Trad = rem SI = Sv 1Sv = 100 rem ```
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Equation for equivalent dose Ht?
Ht = Dt * omegaR Dt: absorbed dose in tissue OmegaR: weighting factor denoting relative bio damage for type of radiation.
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How is effective dose obtained?
By taking into account the equivalent dose to all exposed organ, as well as each organs relative radiosensitivity. E = SUM (Ht * OmegaT)
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WT for red marrow, colon, lungs, stomach, breast?
0.12 each
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WT for gonads?
0.08
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WT for bladder, skin, salivary glands, bone surfaces?
0.01 each
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WT for all else?
0.12 Total
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Annual effective dose limit?
50 mSv
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Effective dose cumulative?
10 mSv * age (years)

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