SP:Mock Exam Flashcards
In which radiopharmaceutical is 99mTc left in the valence state of +7?
(a)Sulfur colloid
(b) Macroaggregated albumin
(c) MAG3
(d) Sestamibi
(a)
A technologist receives a request for a patient to receive 153Sm for palliation of pain from bone metastases. The patient has a leukocyte count of 3500 and 40,000 platelets. What should happen next?
(a)The order should be changed to 89Sr.
(b) The therapy should be delayed until the platelet count is at least 60,000.
(c) The therapy should be delayed until the leukocyte count is below 2400.
(d) The 153Sm dose should be ordered.
(b)
A sulfur colloid kit requires the addition of 1–3 ml containing no more than 500 mCi of 99mTc pertechnetate. In addition, 1.5 ml of Solution A must be added before boiling, and 1.5 ml of Solution B must be added after cooling. If the kit is correctly prepared, what is the maximum concentration of 99mTc it could contain?
(a)83 mCi/ml
(b) 125 mCi/ml
(c) 167 mCi/ml
(d) 500 mCi/ml
(b)
A Hine-Duley phantom is useful for testing the spatial resolution and spatial linearity with only one image.
(a)True
(b)False
(b)
The wall of the heart indicated by the arrow on Fig. 1 is the:
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(a) Septal
(b) Lateral
(c) Inferior
(d) Anterior
(d)
The advantage of a lung ventilation scan performed with 133Xe is:
(a)The ability to match perfusion and ventilation positioning
(b) The ability to detect delayed washout
(c) The ability to perform the exam at the patient’s bedside
(d) The ability to perform perfusion before ventilation without increasing the dose given for the ventilation study
(b)
A diphosphonate kit contains 180 mCi of 99mTc in 30 ml when it is prepared at 8:00 a.m. Immediately, a 20-mCi dose is withdrawn fro a bone scan. If the patient arrives late at 9:30 and half the volume is accidentally discharged, how much volume from the kit must now be added to the syringe to correct the dose to 20 mCi? (No other doses have been withdrawn meanwhile, and the decay factor for 1.5 h is 0.841.)
(a)1.5 ml
(b) 2.0 ml
(c) 2.3 ml
(d) 2.5 ml
(e) 2.7 ml
(c)
A whole body bone scan film shows a good posterior image, but the anterior view appears diffuse and with greater soft tissue activity. What is the probable cause?
(a)Wrong collimator used for the anterior.
(b) Increased patient to detector distance on the anterior relative to the posterior
(c) Low tagging efficiency of the radiopharmaceutical.
(d) Patient was not sufficiently hydrated.
(e) None of the above.
(b)
Which of the following will not reduce the probability of contamination from perspiration and saliva of a therapy patient?
(a)Disposable eating utensils
(b) Plastic covering over the mattress
(c) Covering the telephone receiver with plastic
(d) Collecting the patient’s waste and storing until decayed to background
(d)
Why would an image of the brain be obtained during a lung perfusion scan using 99mTc MAA?
(a)To rule out brain metastases
(b) To detect low tagging efficiency
(c) To detect a right to left cardiac shunt
(d) To see if pulmonary emboli have traveled into the cerebral vessels
(c)
Bone marrow imaging is performed using:
(a)99mTc MDP
(b) 99mTc HDP
(c) 99mTc sulfur colloid
(d) 153Gd
(e) Both a and b
(c)
All of the following have an effect on the concentration of eluate obtained form a wet generator except:
(a)Time since last elution
(b) Volume of saline added to the charging port
(c) Size of collection vial
(d) Amount of 99Mo activity present on the alumina column
(e) Both b and c
(b)
A 99Mo/99mTc generator has an elution efficiency of 89%. If 1.1 Ci of 99mTc are present on the column, what is the estimated activity of eluate that will be obtained?
(a)97.9 Ci
(b) 979 mCi
(c) 979 uCi
(d) 97.9 mCi
(b)
99mTc DTPA has been used for all of the following except:
(a)Aerosol lung scanning
(b) Renal flow study
(c) Brain flow study
(d) Shunt patency
(e) Spleen scanning
(e)
Which of the following is not used as an anticoagulant?
(a)Heparin
(b) EDTA
(c) Ascorbic acid
(d) ACD solution
(c)
If the concentration of a solution desired is 2mCi/ml and the 325 mCi of solute is contained in a volume of 2.5 ml, how much water should be added to create the solution?
(a)160.0 ml
(b) 162.5 ml
(c) 650.0 ml
(d) 125.0 ml
(a)
The inferior wall of the heart is supplied by the:
(a)Left anterior descending branch
(b) Left circumflex artery
(c) Right coronary artery
(d) Left coronary artery
(c)
The uptake of 18F-FDG by tumors is based on:
(a)A blood-brain barrier breakdown
(b) The higher glycolytic rate of tumors relative to normal tissue
(c) Active transport
(d) Antibody-antigen reactions
(e) Receptor binding
(b)
111In delivers a lower radiation dose to the patient than 67Ga because it has only one gamma emission , whereas 67Ga has four.
(a)True
(b)False
(b)
If dipyridamole is supplied in a 50-ml vial containing 250 mg and a patient weighs 205 lb, how much volume will need to be withdrawn from the vial to prepare his dose of 0.56 mg/kg?
(a)5.6
(b) 10.4
(c) 15.9
(d) 22.6
(b)
If 450 mCi of 99mTc eluted from a generator contain 200 uCi of 99Mo, is the eluate within the standards of radionuclidic purity set forth by the NRC?
(a)Yes.
(b) No.
(c) The NRC does not regulate radionuclidic purity.
(d) It cannot be determined from the information given.
(e) This is an example of radiochemical impurity rather than radionuclidic impurity.
(b)
If SPECT images taken with a 360 rotation, 32 stops for 15 s/stop, and matrix of 64 x 64 have significant star artifact, which imaging parameter would be best to change and to correct the image?
(a)Change the rotation to 180.
(b) Change the number of stops to 64.
(c) Change the time/stop to 20 s.
(d) Change the matrix to 128 x 128.
(e) None of the above.
(b)
The images in Fig. 2 were taken 2 h following the intrathecal injection of a radiopharmaceutical. These are images from a : (spinal cord image)
(a)LeVeen shunt study
(b) Cisternogram
(c) Esophageal transit study
(d) CSF shunt patency study
(e) Radionuclide venography
(b)
Which radiopharmaceutical is best to use for renal scanning if a determination of effective renal plasma flow is also desired?
(a)99mTc MAG3
(b) 99mTc GH
(c) 99mTc DMSA
(d) 99mTc DTPA
(a)
68Ga-DOTATATE PET is a radiolabeled:
(a)Fatty acid
(b) Glucose analog
(c) Amino acid
(d) Neuropeptide
(d)
Which of the following cannot be studied with a MUGA study?
(a)Left ventricular ejection fraction
(b) Regional wall perfusion
(c) Stroke volume
(d) Regional wall motion
(b)
Free 99mTc pertechnetate in a bone scan kit will result in activity in the:
(a)Breasts
(b) Thyroid
(c) Gastric mucosa
(d) Lungs
(e) b and c
(e)
A superscan is the result of:
(a)Renal insufficiency
(b) Diffuse skeletal metastases
(c) Chemotherapy response
(d) Paget’s disease
(e) None of the above
(b)
Which of the following is not true regarding 99mTc HMPAO?
(a)It crosses the intact blood-brain barrier.
(b) Distribution of 99mTc HMPAO follows cerebral flow.
(c) It is also known as exametazime.
(d) It does not significantly redistribute in the brain.
(e) None of the above.
(e)
Which of the following may cause a false-positive hepatobiliary scan?
(a)If the patient has recently eaten
(b) If the patient has been fasting for an extended period (>24 h)
(c) The use of sincalide
(d) a and b
(e) b and c
(d)
Phagocytosis of 99mTc albumin colloid is performed by the:
(a)Liver parenchymal cells
(b) Kupffer cells
(c) Hepatocytes
(d) Red blood cells
(b)
Which will perfuse first following an intravenous injection of 99mTc DTPA
(a)Lungs
(b) Left ventricle
(c) Kidney
(d) Liver
(a)
A patient with high blood pressure undergoes renography followed by captopril renography, and the curve of renal uptake from the second exam is lower than the first. What does this mean?
(a)The patient is rejecting a transplanted kidney.
(b) The patient has renovascular hypertension.
(c) The patient has an obstruction in the collecting system.
(d) The patient has high blood pressure.
(e) None of the above.
(b)
The left and right lobes of the thyroid are connected by the:
(a)Pyramidal lobe
(b) Major calyx
(c) Isthmus
(d) Loop of Henle
(c)
The exposure rate at the surface of a package to be shipped is 50 mrem/h. What label is required?
(a)DOT Radioactive White I.
(b) DOT Radioactive Yellow II.
(c) DOT Radioactive Yellow III.
(d) No radioactive label is required.
(b)
If the exposure rate at 5 m from a source is 75 mR/h, what will it be at 2 m?
(a)12 mR/h
(b) 36 mR/h
(c) 245 mR/h
(d) 469 mR/h
(d)