In a nuclear medicine scan using 99mTc, the image SNR for a 30-min scan was 50:1 for an injected radioactive dose of 1 mCi (3.7x10^7 disintegrations per second). Imaging began immediately after injection.
a) If the injected dose were doubled to 2 mCi, what would be the image SNR for a 30-min scan?
b) If the scan time were doubled to 60 min with an initial dose of 1 mCi, what would be the image SNR?