§ 43-62-01 — Definitions

North Dakota § 43-62-01

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 43: Occupations and Professions
• Ch. 43-62: Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy

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As used in this chapter:
1. "Board" means the North Dakota medical imaging and radiation therapy board.
2. "Certification organization" means a national certification organization that specializes
in the certification and registration of medical imaging and radiation therapy technical
personnel and which has programs accredited by the national commission for
certifying agencies, American national standards institute or the international
organization for standardization, or other accreditation organization recognized by the
board.
3. "Licensed practitioner" means a licensed physician, advanced practice registered
nurse, chiropractor, dentist, or podiatrist.
4. "Licensee" means an individual licensed by the board to perform medical imaging or
radiation therapy and operate medical imaging or radiation therapy equipment,
including a nuclear medicine technologist, radiation therapist, radiographer, radiologist
assistant, limited x-ray machine operator, sonographer, or magnetic resonance
imaging technologist.
5. "Medical imaging" means the performance of any diagnostic or interventional
procedure or operation of medical imaging equipment intended for use in the diagnosis
or visualization of disease or other medical conditions in human beings, including
magnetic resonance imaging, fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine, sonography, or x-rays.
6. "Medical physicist" means an individual who is certified by the American board of
radiology, American board of medical physics, American board of science in nuclear
medicine, or Canadian college of physics in medicine in radiological physics or one of
the subspecialties of radiological physics.
7. "Primary modality" means an individual practicing as a nuclear medicine technologist,
radiation therapist, radiographer, radiologist assistant, sonographer, or magnetic
resonance imaging technologist.
8. "Protected health information" has the same meaning as provided under section
23-01.3-01.
9. "Radiation therapy" means the performance of any procedure or operation of radiation
therapy equipment intended for use in the treatment of disease or other medical
conditions in human beings.
10. "Radiation therapist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner or
authorized user, who performs procedures and applies ionizing radiation emitted from
x-ray machines, particle accelerators, or sealed radioactive sources to human beings
for therapeutic purposes.