Nuclear Medicine

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Nuclear Medicine: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Radioactivity, Radiotherapy, Radiodiagnostics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Radionuclides in Nuclear Medicine and, Techniques in Nuclear Medicine

Important Questions on Nuclear Medicine

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Name some radionuclides used in radiodiagnostics.

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A single radionuclide upon which over 80% of diagnostic procedures in modern nuclear medicine rely on is _____.

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Why alpha particles are used for treating leukaemia?

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State Bragg's peak effect.

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What are the uses of magnetic resonance imaging?

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Radioisotope used for the treatment of blood disorder and skin disease is

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Which of the following method is not using ionising radiations?

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In the chain reaction.

U92238Ba+Kr+3n01+ energy E

neutrons and energy produced at n th step will be

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Cotyledons are also called-

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 227Ac has a half-life of 22 years with respect to radioactive decay. The decay follows two parallel paths:  227Ac  227Th and  227Ac 223Fr . If the percentage of the two daughter nuclides are 2.0 and 98.0 , respectively the decay constant (in year-1 ) for  227Ac  227Th path is closest to

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At radioactive equilibrium, the ratio between number of atoms of radioactive elements A and B is 3.1×109 :1. If the half-life period of A is 2×1010 yrs, then the half-life of B is

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The number of neutrons accompanying the formation of 54 139 Xe and 38 94 Sr from the adsorption of a slow neutron by 92 235 U followed by nuclear reaction is.