Student of the Month

This is Levi Sorensen, our current student from Weber State. He is a CT tech at Tooele in his spare time. Right now he is enjoying a break from the nuclear scene and is home with his spouse Stephanie. One of the main reasons Levi comes down to UVRMC is to play Catan on the computer. Levi has been assigned to Mark, so any mistake he makes, Mark gets the blame for. Luckily, he makes few. He does like to play practical jokes on the techs and is pretty good at being on the receiving end of them.

This is Trina the Treadmill Tech, Tina for short. Her favorite question is "how long"? Her favorite quote is "Call Me". She gave us a nice box of Ribbon Candy for Christmas. We gave her a nice box of nothing! Sorry.:( She some day hopes to break the piggy bank and buy 4 wheelers. We can't understand why she just won't ask santa; maybe just maybe she has been a little too naughty.

This has got to be one of the finest scroll saw art pieces ever cut. This is one of Mark's many hidden talents.

Caught like Deer in the headlights!

This is Kurt. Sports and Hunting, reading Louis L'amour. "You Gotta have something to do!" When he gets too old to work, he wants to be stuffed and mounted in the Nuclear Department.

Thanks to the untiring efforts of Rad Tech Dale Baer, we in Nuclear are the benefits of a new microwave oven. We used to go to Tech Hall and cook our eggs for gastric emptying studies. Dale was quite vocal about the sensuous smell of the eggs (he said they stunk!). Thanks to his complaining, we got our own oven now and do not have to got to Tech Hall anymore. At least, this was our selective memory of the event. He may have a different version to tell. But be warned in advance, Dale is also a hunter and a fisherman and, as such, is prone to stretching the truth just a little bit.

From behid the L shield.

This is what the other side looks like!? Is it a cell block? No its an Lblock

Mark Reflects on all the fun times in Nuclear.

We all start off the day with a fresh milking from the "Generator".

The generator is convenient method of obtaining short lived
radionuclides. This happens to be a 99Mo/99mTc generator. The basis of operation for radionuclide gernerator is that relatively long lived parent nuclide continually produces through radioactive decay a shorter -lived daughter nuclide. The separation process or "milking," is referred to a elution.







Welcome to the Hot Lab.

December 19, 2006

On this date in history...something happened. Which is more than can be said for today in Nuclear. Oh, we had many exams and patients and there was snow outside, but it was all the same as things have been.
Tonight though is the nuc med department dinner with Dr and Millie Watts. It will be in Provo, at Ottavio's, a fine Italian restaurant. Stay tuned for more info regarding this event.