As Amended
SEC. 41-58-1. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Department" means the Mississippi State Department of Health.
(b) "Licensed practitioner" means a person licensed or otherwise authorized by law to practice medicine, dentistry, chiropractic, osteopathy or podiatry, or a licensed nurse practitioner.
(c) "Ionizing radiation" means x-rays and gamma rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons and other nuclear particles.
(d) "X-radiation" means penetrating electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than ten (10) nanometers produced by bombarding a metallic target with fast electrons in a vacuum.
(e) "Supervision" means responsibility for, and control of, quality radiation safety and protection, and technical aspects of the application of ionizing radiation to human beings for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes.
(f) "Medical radiation technology" means the science and art of applying ionizing radiation to human beings for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes. The three (3) specialized disciplines of medical radiation technology are diagnostic radiologic technology, nuclear medicine technology and radiation therapy.
(g) "Radiologic technologist" means a person other than a licensed practitioner who has passed a national certification examination such as the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists examination or its equivalent, who applies x-radiation or ionizing radiation to any part of the human body for diagnostic purposes.
(h) "Nuclear medicine technologist" means a person other than a licensed practitioner who has passed a national certification examination such as the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists examination or the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board examination or its equivalent, who performs in vivo imaging and measurement procedures and in vitro nonimaging laboratory studies, prepares radiopharmaceuticals, and administers diagnostic/therapeutic doses of radiopharmaceuticals to human beings while under the supervision of a licensed practitioner who is licensed to possess and use radioactive material.
(i) "Radiation therapist" means a person other than a licensed practitioner who has passed a national certification examination such as the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists examination or its equivalent, who applies x-radiation and the ionizing radiation emitted from particle accelerators, cobalt sixty (60) units and sealed sources of radioactive material to human beings for therapeutic purposes while under the supervision of a licensed radiation oncologist or a board certified radiologist who is licensed to possess and use radioactive material.
(j) "Council" means the Medical Radiation Advisory Council created pursuant to Section 41-58-3.
This section shall stand repealed on July 1, 2001.
SOURCES: Laws, 1995, ch. 388, Sec. 1; 1996, ch. 546, Sec. 1, eff from and after July 1, 1996 and shall stand repealed on July 1, 2001