FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
PAPER III
NM/J/16/24/III
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• 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.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. Role of PET in:
Prostate malignancy.
SPN and lung cancer management.
5+5
2. Respiratory gating.
SUV and its pitfalls
TOF

3. NIS (Sodium Iodide Symporter)
Novel therapies in I131 refractory thyroid cancers.
5+5
4. Alpha and beta emitters in Radionuclide therapy of Medullary
Thyroid cancer.
5+5
5. Renogram and its alterations in disease process.
10
6. A thyroid cancer patient was admitted in Nuclear Medicine
isolation room after receiving 150mCi I131 therapy. He
developed massive acute mycocardial infarction and died at
48 hour post administration. What is the procedure to dispose
his body?
10
7. Enumerate upon treatment modalities in hyperthyroid
disease.
Elaborate on radioiodine treatment planning and
management.
4+6
8. Bone palliation
TENIS
5+5
9. Define spill.
How do you manage a radiation accident?
What is INES?

10. AERB norms in designing of a state of the art Nuclear
Medicine Department.
10