Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT › Article 35 - RADIATION › Section 28-35-135p - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11,
			 2024
As used in these regulations, each of the following terms shall
				have the meaning assigned in this regulation:
(a) "Package" means a container and packing
			 material, together with the radioactive contents, as presented for transport.
(b) "Panoramic dry-source-storage
			 irradiator" means an irradiator in which the irradiations occur in air in areas
			 potentially accessible to personnel and in which the sources are stored in
			 shields made of solid materials. This term shall include beam-type
			 dry-source-storage irradiators in which one narrow beam of radiation is
			 produced for performing irradiations.
(c) "Panoramic wet-source-storage irradiator"
			 means an irradiator in which the irradiations occur in air in areas potentially
			 accessible to personnel and in which the sources are stored underwater in a
			 storage pool.
(d) "Particle
			 accelerator" means any machine capable of accelerating electrons, protons,
			 deuterons, or other charged particles in a vacuum and of discharging the
			 resultant particulate or other radiation into a medium at energies usually in
			 excess of one mega electron volt (MeV).
(e) "Patient" means an individual subjected
			 to examination, diagnosis, or treatment.
(f) "Patient intervention" means any action
			 by the patient or human research subject, whether intentional or unintentional,
			 that affects the prescribed treatment. This term shall include dislodging or
			 removing any treatment device and prematurely terminating the prescribed
			 treatment.
(g) "Peak tube
			 potential" means the maximum value of the potential differences across an X-ray
			 tube during an exposure. This term is also referred to as "kilovolts peak
			 (kVp)."
(h) "Periodic
			 quality-assurance check" means a procedure that is performed to ensure that the
			 previous calibration continues to be valid.
(i) "Permanent radiographic installation"
			 means an enclosed, shielded room, cell, or vault, not located at a temporary
			 job site, in which radiography is performed.
(j) "Person" means any individual,
			 corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private
			 institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this or any other state,
			 or political subdivision or agency, excluding federal government agencies.
(k) "Personnel-monitoring
			 equipment" means any device designed to be carried or worn by an individual and
			 used to measure the exposure of that individual to radiation. For purposes of
			 these regulations, "PMD," which means "personnel-monitoring device," shall be
			 an equivalent term.
(l) "Personnel
			 supervision" means guidance and instruction by the supervisor who is physically
			 present at the job site and who is watching the performance of the operation in
			 such proximity that contact can be maintained and immediate assistance given,
			 as required.
(m) "Phantom" means a
			 volume of material behaving in a manner similar to that of tissue, with respect
			 to the attenuation and scattering of radiation.
(n) "Pharmacist" means any individual
			 licensed to practice pharmacy under
			 K.S.A.
			 65-1626 et seq., and amendments thereto.
(o) "Phototimer" means a device
			 used for controlling radiation exposures to image receptors by limiting the
			 amount of radiation that reaches a radiation-monitoring device or devices. The
			 radiation-monitoring device or devices are part of an electronic circuit that
			 controls the period of time during which the tube is activated. For purposes of
			 these regulations, "automatic exposure control" is an equivalent term.
(p) "Physician" means any
			 individual licensed to practice the healing arts specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2869,
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2870, or
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2871, and amendments thereto.
(q) "Planned special exposure" means an
			 infrequent exposure to radiation, separate from and in addition to the annual
			 occupational dose limits.
(r)
			 "Podiatry" means the activities authorized and specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2001 et seq., and amendments thereto.
(s) "Pool irradiator" means any
			 irradiator at which the sources are stored or used in a pool of water,
			 including panoramic wet-source-storage irradiators and underwater irradiators.
(t) "Portable X-ray equipment"
			 means X-ray equipment designed to be hand-carried.
(u) "Position indication device (PID)" means
			 a device on dental X-ray equipment used to indicate the beam position and to
			 establish a definite source-to-skin-surface distance. A PID can incorporate or
			 serve as a beam-limiting device.
(v) "Positive beam limitation" means the
			 automatic or semiautomatic adjustment of an X-ray beam to the size of the
			 selected image receptor. Exposures cannot be made without this adjustment.
(w) "Practical examination" means
			 a demonstration by personnel through the application of safety principles,
			 including the use of all procedures and equipment.
(x) "Preceptor" means an individual who
			 provides or directs the training and experience required for another individual
			 to become an authorized user, an authorized medical physicist, an authorized
			 nuclear pharmacist, or a radiation safety officer.
(y) "Prescribed dosage" means the quantity of
			 radiopharmaceutical activity documented as follows:
(1) In a written directive; or
(2) either in the diagnostic clinical
			 procedures manual or in any appropriate record in accordance with the
			 directions of the authorized user for diagnostic procedures.