Part I

Question 1

[year, person] discovery of artificial radioactivity

Answer 1

1934, Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot

Question 2

[year, event] production of radionuclides for medical related use

Answer 2

1946 Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Question 3

[year, person] discovery of natural radioactivity (uranium salts)

Answer 3

1896, Henri Bequerel

Question 4

[year, person] discovered polonium and radium

Answer 4

1898, Marie Curie

Question 5

[year, person] developed the tracer principle

Answer 5

George de Hevesy

Question 6

[year] de Hevesy first applied the tracer principle

Answer 6

1923

Question 7

[year, person] studied first human application of the radioactive tracers

Answer 7

1927, Blumgart and Weiss

Question 8

[year, person] invented cyclotron (uses protons, beta plus decay and electron capture: too much protons)

Answer 8

1931, Ernest Lawrence

Question 9

[year, person] administered phosphorus 32 to a patient with leukemia

Answer 9

1937, John Lawrence

Question 10

[year, person] discovered I-131

Answer 10

1938, Glenn T. Seaborg and John Livingood

Question 11

[year, person] invented nuclear reactor

Answer 11

1946, Enrico Fermi

Question 12

[year, person] developed rectilinear scanner/radioisotope scanner to image thyroid gland

Answer 12

1951, Benedict Cassen

Question 13

[year, person] introduced gamma or scintillation camera

Answer 13

1958, Hal Oscar Anger

Question 14

[person, nobel prize year] father of nuclear medicine

Answer 14

George de Hevesy, 1943

Question 15

first radioactive material used in imaging

Answer 15

Iodine-131

Question 16

first organ to be imaged with radioactive material

Answer 16

thyroid gland

Question 17

first radioactive material use to treat

Answer 17

phosphorus 32

Question 18

first disease to be treated with radioactive material

Answer 18

leukemia

Question 19

[person, nobel prize year] discovery of antiproton

Answer 19

1959, Emilio Segre

Question 20

[year, person] discovered technicium-99

Answer 20

1938, Emilio Segre and Glenn T. Seaborg

Question 21

[year, person] used Tc-99 for imaging

Answer 21

1964, Paul Harper and colleague

Question 22

radioisotope used for SPECT

Answer 22

Tc 99m

Question 23

radioisotope used for PET

Answer 23

F 18, C 11, 015

Question 24

[year, person] father of body organ imaging, invention of radioisotope scanner; assembled first automated scanning system

Answer 24

1950, Benedict Cassen

Question 25

[year, person] pioneer in tomography, cross sectional images of the distribution of radioisotopes (SPECT Imaging)

Answer 25

Dr. David Kuhl

Question 26

[ person] inventor of PET

Answer 26

Michael Phelps

Question 27

[year, person] developed PET/CT Scanner

Answer 27

Ronald Nutt and David W. Townsent