# Title 114 — Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Board

## Article 114-01 — General Administration

## Chapter 114-01-02 — Definitions

### § 114-01-02-01. Definitions.

The terms used in this title have the same meaning as in North Dakota Century Code chapter
43-62 and apply to North Dakota Administrative Code title 114 unless the context indicates otherwise.
1. "Accreditation" means the official authorization or status granted by a nationally recognized
accrediting organization or agency.
2. "Applicant" means an individual seeking official action by the board.
3. "Approved" means the standards established by the board are met.
4. "Authority" means legal authority granted through licensure to provide medical imaging or
radiation therapy services to patients.
5. "Authorized user" means a physician, dentist, or podiatrist who is licensed as required to
possess and use radioactive materials under North Dakota Century Code chapter 23.1-03.
6. "Bone densitometry technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who
is responsible for administration of ionizing radiation to humans to determine the density of
bone structure for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes.
7. "Cardiac electrophysiology specialist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner,
who assists with limited fluoroscopic radiologic procedures, sonography, or diagnostic and
interventional cardiac electrophysiology procedures.
8. "Cardiac-interventional technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner,
that is responsible for the administration of ionizing radiation to humans to visualize cardiac
structures for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes.
9. "Cardiovascular invasive specialist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner,
who assists with medical equipment emitting ionizing radiation for fluoroscopic radiologic
procedures or performs sonography procedures that are limited to specific body parts and
only for cardiovascular interventional procedures.
10. "Competence" means the application and integration of knowledge, skills, ability, and
judgment necessary to meet standards.
11. "Computed tomography technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner,
who is responsible for the administration of ionizing radiation to humans for diagnostic,
therapeutic, or research purposes.
12. "Conditional license" means a license issued by the board to an individual who may or may
not have graduated from a program and is actively working toward certification and
registration.
13. "Continuing education" means a relevant education activity or program that has been
approved by an organization or entity, which has been recognized or authorized by a
certification organization to approve or provide continuing education or continuing medical
education activities for medical imaging or radiation therapy professionals.

14. "Criminal history record information" has the same meaning as the phrase is defined in North
Dakota Century Code section 12-60-16.1.
15. "Fluoroscopy" means the exposure of a patient to x-rays to provide real-time, dynamic viewing
of anatomic structures, including positioning the patient and fluoroscopic equipment along with
the selection of factors needed to produce an image.
16. "Internationally educated" means educated outside the United States.
17. "Jurisdiction" means a province, state, or territory that certifies, registers, or licenses medical
imaging or radiation therapy professionals to practice.
18. "Lapsed" means a license which is not renewed.
19. "License" means the legal authority granted by the board to practice one or more of the
medical imaging and radiation therapy modalities.
20. "Licensure" means the process by which the board grants legal authority to an individual to
engage in the practice of medical imaging or radiation therapy upon finding the individual has
attained the essential education, certification and competence, or on-the-job training,
necessary to ensure the public health, safety, and welfare will be protected.
21. "Limited license" means to restrict, qualify, or otherwise modify the license related to a scope
of practice.
22. "Limited x-ray machine operator" means an individual who performs radiologic examinations
and has completed the necessary didactic and clinical training required to follow strict
guidelines in the performance of limited series x-ray procedures.
23. "Magnetic resonance imaging technologist" means an individual other than a licensed
practitioner, who uses radiofrequency transmission within a high-strength magnetic field on
humans for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes.
24. "Mammography technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who is
responsible for administration of ionizing radiation and breast directed high-frequency sound
waves for diagnostic, therapeutic, and research purposes, and performs breast imaging
procedure and related techniques, producing data.
25. "Medically underserved areas" means having met the criteria based on the Index of Medical
Underservice, published in the Federal Register on October 15, 1976. See 42 CFR
51C.102(e) United States of health and human services health resources and services
administration.
26. "Nuclear medicine technologist" means an individual, other than an authorized user, who
prepares and administers radiopharmaceuticals and related drugs to human beings for
diagnostic and research purposes, and is responsible for the use of ionizing and nonionizing
radiation and molecular imaging, performs in vivo and in vitro detection and measurement of
radioactivity and administers radiopharmaceuticals to human beings for therapeutic purposes.
27. "Other modality" means the practice of one or more of the medical imaging and radiation
therapy recognized professions while in compliance with the continuing education
requirements established by the board.
28. "Primary source verification" means the process used by the board or its designee to confirm
certification and registration information submitted by the applicant or licensee with the
appropriate certification organization.

29. "Quality management technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner,
who has received specific documented training to perform physics surveys independently with
medical physicist oversight and may assist a medical physicist for special modality physics
surveys. The licensee also may supervise quality control and quality improvement projects
that ensure improved medical imaging and radiation therapy department performance.
30. "Radiographer" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who performs a
comprehensive set of diagnostic radiographic procedures using external ionizing radiation and
contrast media to produce radiographic, fluoroscopic, or digital images.
31. "Radiologist assistant" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who is a
medical radiographer with advanced-level training and certification, and performs selected
radiology examinations and procedures.
32. "Radiology" means the branch of medicine that deals with the study and application of imaging
technology to diagnose and treat disease.
33. "Reinstatement" means issuance of a previously active license in the absence of disciplinary
action.
34. "Relicensure" means renewal, reinstatement, or reissuance of a license.
35. "Scope of practice" means the delineation of the nature and extent of practice.
36. "Sonographer" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who uses nonionizing,
high-frequency sound waves with specialized equipment to direct the sound waves into areas
of the human body to generate images for the assessment and diagnosis of various medical
conditions.
37. "Supervision" means responsibility for and control of, quality, radiation safety and protection,
and technical aspects of the application of ionizing and nonionizing radiation to human beings
for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes:
a. "General" means the licensee is under the overall direction and control of a licensed
practitioner or an authorized user whose presence is not required during the performance
of the procedure.
b. "Personal" means the licensed practitioner must be in attendance in the room during the
performance of the procedure.
38. "Temporary license" means the authority to practice for a limited time period not to exceed one
hundred eighty days.
39. "Vascular interventional technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner,
who is responsible for the administration of ionizing radiation to humans to visualize vascular
structures for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes.
History: Effective April 1, 2018.
General Authority: NDCC 43-62
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-62-09
