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 II
NM/J/16/24/II
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. Significance of intervention in Nuclear Medicine.
Enumerate various interventional procedures.
Write briefly on a non imaging intervention.

2. Role of PET-CT in carcinoma breast and carcinoma ovary.
5+5
3. Role of Nuclear Medicine in PE.
What is PIOPED classification? Give its significance in
clinical scenario.
4+6
4. Ga 68 DOTA-NOC
Tc 99m Sulfur colloid
Lu 177 PSMA
I124
2.5x4
5. Myocardial perfusion studies Vs RNV.
5+5
6. Role of PET-CT in infections.
10
7. What do you understand by artifacts?
How does it affect in Nuclear Medicine?
How will you correct it? Give one example.

8. Role of Nuclear Medicine in epileptic disorders.
10
9. How does Nuclear Medicine play an effective role in the
evaluation of brain tumours?
10
10. Mechanism of localization of radiopharmaceutical in Nuclear
Medicine. Enumerate with example.
10