PRELIM Flashcards
The Father of nuclear medicine in the Philippines
DR. JOSE PAULO C. CAMPOS
A neutron is a subatomic particle with a mass of
1 and a charge of 0.
there are now BLANK physicians fully trained and certified to practice nuclear medicine in the Philippines
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His ( Ernest Lawrence ) research centered on the
bombarding atoms at high speed in order to produce new particles
A nuclear medicine scans consist of 3 phases
tracer (radionuclide) administration, taking images and image interpretation.
These procedures use radioactive materials called
radiopharmaceuticals.
is a procedure that are used in diagnosing and treating certain illnesses.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Ernest Lawrence began working at
University of California in Berkeley in 1928 as a nuclear physicist.
The protons and neutrons are found in the
nucleus at the centre of the atom
NEUTRONS:
It is a subatomic particle with a mass comparable to a
proton and a neutral electrical charge.
PROTONS:
It is a positively charged particle that resides within the atomic nucleus.
The proton has charge +1 (or, alternately, 1.602 x 10- 19 Coulombs).
Nuclear medicine exams pinpoint
molecular activity.
Doctors use nuclear medicine to diagnose, evaluate and treat various diseases. These include
cancer, heart diseases, gastrointestinal, endocrine or neurological disorders and other conditions.
An even greater number of approximately BLANK Nuclear Medicine technologists, medical physicists, radiochemists & radiopharmacists
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The origin of nuclear medicine started with the invention of the cyclotron by
by Ernest Orlando Lawrence ( 1901 – 1958 )
