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patient, positioning the equipment and positioning the image
receptor.

 
12. Radiologic technologist. "Radiologic technologist" means
any person who is a radiographer, a radiation therapy
technologist therapist or a nuclear medicine technologist
licensed under this Act chapter.

 
13. Radiologic technology. "Radiologic technology" means the
use of a radioactive substance or equipment emitting ionizing
radiation on human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

 
14. Radiological physicist. "Radiological physicist" means a
person who is certified by the American Board of Radiology has
successfully completed education and training in medical
radiological physics or one of the subspecialties of radiological
physics or who is eligible for that certification.

 
15. Radiologist. "Radiologist" means a physician, certified
by the American Board of Radiology or the American Osteopathic
Board of Radiology, the British Royal College of Radiology or the
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, who is licensed in this
State or who has completed or who is actively pursuing the course
of training equivalent to the course of training required for
admission to these boards.

 
16.__Radiopharmaceutical.__"Radiopharmaceutical" means a
radioactive substance approved for administration to a patient to
provide diagnostic information or deliver treatment for a
specific disease.

 
Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §9853, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1999, c. 687, Pt. E,
§8, is further amended to read:

 
1. Appointment and membership. The membership of the board
consists of 2 radiologists; 2 radiographers; one nuclear medicine
technologist; one radiation therapy technologist therapist; one
radiation physicist;; and 2 public members who are not affiliated
with the medical or any allied health profession. The Governor
may appoint these members from lists submitted by the following
organizations or their successors.

 
A. Radiologist members may be appointed from lists
submitted by the Maine Radiological Society.

 
B. The radiation physicist member may be appointed from
lists submitted by the Maine Radiological Society.

 
C. Radiologic technologist members may be appointed from lists
submitted by the Maine Society of Radiologic


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