Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-83 - Licensing Provisions for Health Care Facilities › Section 3701-83-43 - Definitions - freestanding radiation therapy centers

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in rules 3701-83-43 to
				3701-83-50
				of the Administrative Code:
(A)
			 "Authorized user" means a physician who meets the definition
			 of "authorized user" in rule
			 3701:1-58-01 of the
			 Administrative Code and is listed as the authorized user on the radioactive
			 materials license issued by the director to the freestanding radiation therapy
			 center.
(B) "Brachytherapy" means a
			 method of radiation therapy in which sources are used to deliver a radiation
			 dose at a distance of up to a few centimeters by surface, intracavitary,
			 intraluminal, or interstitial application.
(C) "Dose" or "radiation dose" is a generic
			 term that means absorbed dose, dose equivalent, committed effective dose
			 equivalent, or total effective dose equivalent as defined in rule
			 3701:1-38-01 of the
			 Administrative Code.
(D)
			 "Freestanding radiation therapy center" means a facility, part of a facility,
			 or any arrangement in which radiation therapy services are transported to
			 various sites, at which radiation therapy is provided to patients.
			 "Freestanding radiation therapy center" does not include the provision of
			 radiation therapy by a hospital registered under section
			 3701.07
			 of the Revised Code, or the provision of radiation therapy by an entity that is
			 reviewed as part of a hospital accreditation or certification
			 program.
(E) "Interstitial
			 application" means the use of sealed radioactive sources within special
			 applicators placed in tissue in a predetermined pattern.
(F) "Intracavitary application" means the use
			 of radioactive sources in closed containers placed in body cavities.
(G) "Intraluminal" means within the lumen of
			 a tube or tubular organ, such as a blood vessel.
(H) "Ionizing radiation" means gamma rays and
			 x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and
			 other atomic or nuclear particles or rays.
(I) "Nuclear medicine physician" means a
			 physician listed as an authorized user on a radioactive materials license
			 issued by the director for that modality as required in Chapter 3701:1-58 of
			 the Administrative Code.
(J)
			 "Radiation oncologist" means a physician who meets the requirements of paragraph (C) of rule
			 3701:1-67-02
			 of the Administrative Code.
(K) "Radiologist" means a physician board
			 certified in radiology by the American board of radiology, the American
			 osteopathic board of radiology, or by the royal college of physicians and
			 surgeons of Canada, or who has completed a formal accreditation council for
			 graduate medical education (ACGME) or American osteopathic association approved
			 residency in radiology.
(L)
			 "Radiation therapy" means the use of ionizing radiation or radiopharmaceuticals
			 for therapy, including external beam radiation therapy (teletherapy),
			 intraoperative radiation therapy, brachytherapy, and radioactive materials for
			 therapeutic administration as authorized on a radioactive materials license
			 issued by the director pursuant to rules
			 3701:1-58-43
			 and
			 3701:1-58-55
			 of the Administrative Code in the treatment of human illness.
(M) "Simulation" means the mock-up of a
			 patient treatment with radiographic documentation of the treatment
			 portals.
(N)
								 "Teletherapy physicist" means a physicist who meets the
			 definition in rule
			 3701:1-58-01 of the
			 Administrative Code and the training criteria specified in rule
			 3701:1-58-71
			 of the Administrative Code.