Radionuclide

Question 1

Skeleton and heart muscle imaging, brain, thyroid, lungs, liver, spleen, kidney, gall bladder, bone marrow, salivary and lacrimal glands, heart blood pool, infection.

Answer 1

Technetium 99m

Question 2

Used for pulmonary ventilation studies.

Answer 2

Xenon 133
Krypton 81

Question 3

Used for CSF studies in the brain.

Answer 3

Ytterbium 169

Question 4

Thyroid imaging.

Answer 4

Iodine 131

Question 5

Tumor imaging and localization of inflammatory lesions (infections).

Answer 5

Gallium 67

Question 6

Used for BRAIN STUDIES, infection, colon transit studies.

Answer 6

Indium 111

Question 7

PET agent in myocardial perfusion imaging.

Answer 7

Rubidium 82

Question 8

Used for diagnosis of CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE and other heart conditions and for location of low-grade lymphomas.

Answer 8

Thallium 201