KRS 311B.020: Definitions for chapter.

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1) "Accredited educational program" means a program that is approved by a national

organization acceptable to the board to provide education in medical imaging or

radiation therapy;

(2) "Actively employed" means an individual who is appropriately credentialed and

currently employed as an advanced imaging professional, medical imaging

technologist, radiation therapist, an educator or administrator in any of these

disciplines, or a limited X-ray machine operator;

(3) "Advanced imaging professional" means an individual who is credentialed by a

nationally recognized certification organization that is recognized by the board;

(4) "Authorized user" means a physician, dentist, or podiatrist id entified on a

radioactive materials license that authorizes the medical use of radioactive materials

if the license was issued by:

(a) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services;

(b) The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; or

(c) Another United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission agreement state;

(5) "Board" means the Kentucky Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy;

(6) "Credentialed" means someone who is certified and registered by an appropriate

national organization that is recognized by the board;

(7) "Continuing education" means a learning activity that is planned, organized, and

administered to enhance the professio nal knowledge and skills of a licensed

individual of medical imaging or radiation therapy to provide services for patients,

the public, or the medical profession;

(8) "Licensed practitioner" or "licensed practitioner of the healing arts" means a person

licensed in Kentucky to practice medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, chiropractic,

podiatry, or veterinary medicine;

(9) "Limited X -ray machine operator" means an individual who performs limited

radiographic procedures that shall not include contrast studies, fl uoroscopy, nuclear

medicine, or radiation therapy procedures;

(10) "Medical imaging technologist" means an individual who has completed an

accredited educational program in radiography, nuclear medicine, or other imaging

modality recognized by the board an d who is licensed and granted privileges under

this chapter. An individual licensed as a medical imaging technologist or a limited

X-ray machine operator shall be employed to perform medical imaging at a facility

where contrast studies, fluoroscopy, nuclea r medicine, or radiation therapy

procedures are performed, but a limited X -ray machine operator may only perform

limited diagnostic radiography;

(11) "National organization" means:

(a) The American Society of Radiologic Technologists;

(b) The Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board;

(c) The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists;

(d) The Society of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Section;

(e) The Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology;

(f) The Joint Review Committee on Edu cational Programs in Nuclear Medicine

Technology;

(g) The American College of Radiology; or

(h) Another national organization recognized by the board;

(12) "Nuclear medicine technologist" means an individual who is authorized to prepare

and administer radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and radionuclides under the

direction of an authorized user to perform nuclear medicine procedures for

diagnostic and therapeutic purposes;

(13) "Post-primary certification" means an individual who has primary certificati on and

has been awarded post -primary certification by a national organization that has

been recognized by the board;

(14) "Primary certification" means an individual who has successfully completed a

formal educational program and certification in radiograp hy, nuclear medicine,

radiation therapy, or other modality recognized by the board;

(15) "Radiation therapist" means an individual who:

(a) Has completed an accredited educational program in radiation therapy;

(b) Is licensed by the board; and

(c) Is authorized to utilize ionizing radiation-generating equipment and sources of

radiation for the planning, localization, and delivery of therapeutic procedures

on human beings; and

(16) "Radiographer" means an individual who is authorized to use ionizing radiatio n-

generating equipment to perform a comprehensive scope of diagnostic imaging

procedures and is responsible for the operation of radiation -generating equipment,

protecting the patient and staff from unnecessary radiation, and selecting the

appropriate expo sure to produce diagnostic images with the lowest reasonable

exposure.