FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2016
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
PAPER III
NM/D/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. Management strategies in TENIS.
10
2. Indications, preparation, protocol, contraindications and
common side effects of 131I MIBG therapy.
2x5
3. Radiation synovectomy.
188 Rhenium radiopharmaceuticals in therapy.
5+5
4. Define Radioimmunotherapy.
Enumerate various radiopharmaceuticals involved in
management of lymphoma. Mention their merits and
demerits.
2+8
5. Bethesda system of reporting thyroid cytopathology.
TIRADs.
5+5
6. Serum Thyroglobulin
r TSH
5+5
7. 177 Lutetium: Properties, various radiopharmaceuticals,
therapeutic applications, precautions and side effects.
2x5
8. TARE.
α-emitter therapies.
5+5
9. Explain with diagram(s) the design of a delay tank as per
AERB norms.
10
10. What is MIRD? Write the formula for calculation of absorbed
dose with elaboration of each component.
10