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DECEMBER 2019

NUCLEAR MEDICINE

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PAPER-I

Time: 3 Hours NM/D/19/24/1 Max. Marks: 100

Important Instructions:

• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.

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• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.

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• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts, wherever appropriate.

Write short notes on:

1. Types of PET detectors: characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. 8+2
   Which one will you select for your department and why?
2. What are phantoms? Discuss types of phantoms and their use in Nuclear 2+8
   

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   Medicine.
3. a) Attenuation correction in PET-CT. 5+5
   b) Filters used in SPECT.
4. Principle, design and uses of intra operative gamma probe. 10
5. Explain SUV and other quantitative PET parameters. What factors affect 5+3+2
   

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   them? Which SUV will you routinely use and why?
6. Transient and secular equilibrium with examples. 5+5
7. a) Define HVT, TVT, LET, RBE & OER. 5+5
   b) What is PMT? Discuss working and uses of PMT in Nuclear Medicine.
8. a) What is Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV and NPV? 5+5
   

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   b) Phases of clinical trials.
9. a) DICOM and PACS. 5+5
   b) Auger electron and utility.
10. a) Liquid scintillators. 5+5
    b) Quenching.

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