{"data":{"id":"us-nm/61-14e-4","jurisdiction":"us-nm","citation":"61-14E-4","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act:\nA. \"advisory council\" means the medical imaging and radiation therapy advisory council;\nB. \"board\" means the environmental improvement board;\nC. \"certificate of limited practice\" means a certificate issued pursuant to the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act to persons who perform restricted diagnostic radiography under direct supervision of a licensed practitioner limited to the following specific procedures:\n(1) the viscera of the thorax;\n(2) extremities;\n(3) radiation to humans for diagnostic purposes in the practice of dentistry;\n(4) axial/appendicular skeleton; or\n(5) the foot, ankle or lower leg;\nD. \"certified nurse practitioner\" means a person licensed pursuant to Section 61-3-23.2 NMSA 1978;\nE. \"credential\" or \"certification\" means the recognition awarded to an individual who meets the requirements of a credentialing or certification organization;\nF. \"credentialing organization\" or \"certification organization\" means a nationally recognized organization recognized by the board that issues credentials or certification through testing or evaluations that determine whether an individual meets defined standards for training and competence in a medical imaging modality;\nG. \"department\" means the department of environment;\nH. \"diagnostic medical sonographer\" means a person, including a vascular technologist or echocardiographer, other than a licensed practitioner, who provides patient care services using ultrasound;\nI. \"division\" means the environmental health bureau of the field operations and infrastructure division of the department;\nJ. \"ionizing radiation\" means alpha particles, beta particles, gamma rays, x-rays, neutrons, high-speed electrons, high-speed protons and other particles capable of producing ions; \"ionizing radiation\" does not include non-ionizing radiation, such as sound waves, radio waves or microwaves, or visible, infrared or ultraviolet light;\nK. \"license\" means a document issued by the department pursuant to the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act to an individual who has met the requirements of licensure;\nL. \"licensed practitioner\" means a person licensed to practice medicine, dentistry, podiatry, chiropractic or osteopathy in this state;\nM. \"licensure\" means a grant of authority through a license or limited license to perform specific medical imaging and radiation therapy services pursuant to the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act;\nN. \"magnetic resonance technologist\" means a person other than a licensed practitioner who performs magnetic resonance procedures under the supervision of a licensed practitioner using magnetic fields and radio frequency signals;\nO. \"medical imaging\" means the use of substances or equipment emitting ionizing or non-ionizing radiation on humans for diagnostic or interventional purposes;\nP. \"medical imaging modality\" means:\n(1) diagnostic medical sonography and all of its subspecialties;\n(2) magnetic resonance imaging and all of its subspecialties;\n(3) nuclear medicine technology and all of its subspecialties;\n(4) radiation therapy and all of its subspecialties; and\n(5) radiography and all of its subspecialties;\nQ. \"medical imaging professional\" means a person who is a magnetic resonance technologist, radiographer, nuclear medicine technologist or diagnostic medical sonographer and who is licensed pursuant to the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act;\nR. \"non-ionizing radiation\" means the static and time-varying electric and magnetic fields and radio frequency, including microwave radiation and ultrasound;\nS. \"nuclear medicine technologist\" means a person other than a licensed practitioner who applies radiopharmaceutical agents to humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes under the direction of a licensed practitioner;\nT. \"physician assistant\" means a person licensed pursuant to Section 61-6-7 or 61-10A-4 NMSA 1978 [repealed];\nU. \"radiation therapy\" means the application of ionizing radiation to humans for therapeutic purposes;\nV. \"radiation therapy technologist\" means a person other than a licensed practitioner whose application of radiation to humans is for therapeutic purposes;\nW. \"radiographer\" means a person other than a licensed practitioner whose application of radiation to humans is for diagnostic purposes;\nX. \"radiography\" means the application of radiation to humans for diagnostic purposes, including adjustment or manipulation of x-ray systems and accessories, including image receptors, positioning of patients, processing of films and any other action that materially affects the radiation dose to patients;\nY. \"radiologist\" means a licensed practitioner certified by the American board of radiology, the British royal college of radiology, the American osteopathic board of radiology or the American chiropractic board of radiology; and\nZ. \"radiologist assistant\" means an individual licensed as a radiographer as defined in the Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety Act who holds additional certification as a registered radiologist assistant by the American registry of radiologic technologists and who works under the supervision of a radiologist; provided that a radiologist assistant shall not interpret images, render diagnoses or prescribe medications or therapies.\"","path":["Chapter 61 - Professional and Occupational Licenses","ARTICLE 14E Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Health and Safety"],"source_url":"https://nmonesource.com/nmos/nmsa-unanno/en/item/18564/index.do","current_through":"2026-05-20","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:02:20Z","sha256":"361626dafc0f8b2c907e4af963f049236afe9425ac16ff8db02ad651d22c8830","source_id":"us-nm","stale":false,"prev":"us-nm/61-14e-3","next":"us-nm/61-14e-5"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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