What is NMT
Across
- 3. the amount of radiation exposure from a source decreases exponentially with distance.
- 4. referring to the state where an abnormality can be detected but the specific cause is not obvious?
- 11. what is the “SI” unit for radiation that also bears the last name of the scientist that discovered “rays” coming from uranium?
- 14. a change in which subatomic particle results in a change in the element present?
- 15. What kind of nuclear medicine study produces images?
- 18. what kind of imaging can create a movie of the function of the body
- 19. what does PET stand for?
- 21. What is the common unit of activity in the united states also named after a famous scientist
- 22. to lesson the severity of disease, not a cure
Down
- 1. imaging techniques used in developing a cure that is specific to a patient
- 2. what does the m in Tc-99m stand for?
- 5. what is the acronym that is like a nuclear medicine CT scan
- 6. what type of radiation is good for therapeutic or theranostic applications?
- 7. An imaging modality that gives physiologic based images.
- 8. What is used to treat a disease?
- 9. two atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons?
- 10. What was the first cancer type treated by NMT?
- 12. something used to cover radioactive sources which helps to absorb some of the radiation; helps decrease the NMT’s dose from the radiation
- 13. what is energy in transit?
- 16. What do we call the radioactive medicines that NMTs inject into patients?
- 17. what is a type of electromagnetic radiation that is good for imaging?
- 20. what kind of study in NMT is not a therapy and does not produce images, means within the living body