Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 19 - Bureau of Professional Licensure › Subpart 60 - Professional Licensure › Chapter 7 - REGULATION GOVERNING REGISTRATION OF MEDICAL RADIATION TECHNOLOGISTS › Subchapter 1 - General › Rule 15-19-60-7.1.2 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The following terms shall have the meaning set forth
						below, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "
Department
" means the
					 Mississippi Department of Health.
2. "
Licensed practitioner
" means
					 a person licensed or otherwise authorized by law to practice medicine,
					 dentistry, chiropractic, osteopathy or podiatry, or a licensed nurse
					 practitioner, or physician assistant.
3. "
Ionizing radiation
" means
					 x-rays and gamma rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons
					 and other nuclear particles.
4.
					 "
X-radiation
" means penetrating electromagnetic radiation with
					 wavelengths short than ten (10) nanometers produced by bombarding a metallic
					 target with fast electrons in a vacuum.
5. "
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.
6. "
Medical radiation
					 technology
" means the science and art of applying ionizing radiation to
					 human beings for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes. The Department issues
					 three (3) types of registrations for certain specialized disciplines of medical
					 radiation technology as further described in Rule
					 7.3.1. The Department does not issue
					 registrations to limited x-ray machine operators.
7. "
Radiologic technologist
"
					 means a person other than a licensed practitioner who has passed a national
					 certification examination recognized by the Department such as the American
					 Registry of Radiologic Technologist examination or its equivalent, who applies
					 x-radiation or ionizing radiation to any part of the human body for diagnostic
					 purposes and includes the administration of parenteral and enteral contrast
					 media and administration of other medications or procedures incidental to
					 radiologic examinations.
8.
					 "
Nuclear medicine technologist
" means a person other than a
					 licensed practitioner who has passed a national certification examination
					 recognized by the Department such as the American Registry of Radiologic
					 Technologist examination or the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board
					 examination or their equivalent, and who has registered with the department to
					 perform nuclear medicine. A registered nuclear medicine technologist may
					 perform computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging only for the purposes
					 of anatomical location and attenuation correction, provided that this
					 limitation does not apply to persons registered by the Department to perform
					 nuclear medicine who are also certified in radiography, computed tomography or
					 magnetic resonance imaging by the America Registry of Radiologic Technologists,
					 the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board, or their
					 equivalent.
9. "
Radiation
					 therapist
" means a person other than a licensed practitioner who has
					 passed a national certification examination recognized by the Department such
					 as the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist 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.
10. "
Council
" means the Medical
					 Radiation Advisory Council.
11.
					 "
Act
" shall mean Section
					 41-58-1 et seq. of Mississippi
					 Code of 1972, annotated.
12.
					 "
State
" shall mean the State of Mississippi.
13. "
Limited X-Ray Machine
					 Operator
" means a person other than a licensed practitioner or
					 radiologic technologist who is issued a
Permit
by the State Board
					 of Medical Licensure to perform medical radiation technology limited to
					 specific radiographic procedures on certain parts of the human anatomy,
					 specifically the chest, abdomen and skeletal structures, and excluding
					 fluoroscopic, both stationary and mobile (C-arm), and contrast studies,
					 computed tomography, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy studies and
					 mammography. Limited X-Ray machine operators are regulated by the State Board
					 of Medical Licensure.
14.
"Nuclear medicine"
means the discipline of performing in vivo
					 imaging and measurement procedures and invitro nonimaging laboratory studies,
					 preparing radio pharmaceuticals and administering diagnostic/therapeutic doses
					 of radiopharmaceuticals and other medications or procedures incidental for
					 nuclear medicine exams to human beings while under the supervision of a
					 licensed practitioner who is authorized to use radioactive material.
Miss. Code Ann.
						§
												41-58-3.