Scintigraphy

Question 1

What is a general decay scheme? and how does the one of Tc99m look?

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Question 2

How does a moly generator work?

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Question 3

What does Transient and Secular equilibruim mean?

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Question 4

Explain the scintillation detector of a gamma camera? What are the main categories to detect radiation?

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Question 5

Of which material is the scintilator? and how does it work?

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Question 6

What are the basic components of a gamma camera?

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Question 7

What is a photomultiplier tube?

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Question 8

What does the (pre)ampliefier do?

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Question 9

What does a pulse height analyzer do?

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Question 10

What are rate scalers, cathode tubes and ADCs?

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Question 11

Name the different collimators and how they work. Name grid frequency and grid ratio.

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Question 12

What is peaking and what happens when it goes wrong?

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Question 13

What is uniformity?

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Question 14

How to determine spatial resolution?

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Question 15

Which factors influence spatial and temporal resolution?

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Question 16

What are the different types of acquisistions?

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Question 17

What influences temporal resolution?

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Question 18

What is a parallel hole collimator?

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Question 19

What is a pinhole collimator?

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Question 20

What is a converging and diverging collimator?

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Question 21

What is image depth? what is the difference in between modalities?

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Question 22

How to choose matrix size?

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Question 23

What is done to correct background? What is cross talk?

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Question 24

What is ROI? What is TAC?

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Question 25

What are basic filtering operations?

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Question 26

What does Pertechnatate? Basic principles

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Question 27

What does methylene diphosphonate? Basic principles

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Question 28

What does Iodine scintigraphy? Basic principles

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Question 29

What does Pertechnatate? Scanning protocol

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Question 30

What does Methylene diphosphonate? Scanning protocol

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Question 31

What does Iodine scintigraphy? Scanning protocol

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Question 32

Name the artefact Appearance Remedy

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Question 33

Name the artefact Appearance Remedy

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Question 34

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Question 37

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Question 38

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Question 39

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Question 40

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Question 42

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Question 43

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Question 44

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Question 45

What is cold limb syndrome?

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