192.760. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

192.760. As used in sections 192.760 and 192.762 and sections 208.175and 208.176, RSMo, the following terms mean:

(1) "General license", a license, effective pursuant to rulespromulgated by the department of health and senior services, without thefiling of an application, to transfer, acquire, own, possess, or usequantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, radioactive material;

(2) "Ionizing radiation", gamma rays and X rays, alpha particles, betaparticles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, high-speed ions and otherhigh-speed nuclear particles;

(3) "Mammography", radiography of the breast for the purpose of enablinga physician to determine the presence, size, location and extent of cancerousor potentially cancerous tissue in the breast;

(4) "Mammography authorization", authorization under section 208.176 touse a radiation machine for mammography;

(5) "Mammography system", the radiation machine used for mammography;automatic exposure control devices; films, screens, and cassettes; imageprocessor; darkroom; and view boxes;

(6) "Person", any person, firm, partnership, limited partnership,corporation, association, institution, political subdivision or otherorganization;

(7) "Radiation machine", a machine, other than those exempted bydepartment rule, that emits ionizing radiation;

(8) "Radiation physicist", a person who is certified by the AmericanBoard of Radiology in radiological physics or one of the specialties ofradiological physics;

(9) "Radioactive material", a solid, liquid, or gas which emits ionizingradiation spontaneously;

(10) "Radiography", the making of a film or other record of an internalstructure of the body by passing X rays or gamma rays through the body to acton film or other image receptor;

(11) "Registration", registration of a source of ionizing radiation inwriting with the department of health and senior services;

(12) "Source of ionizing radiation", a device or material that emitsionizing radiation;

(13) "Specific license", a license issued to use, manufacture, produce,transfer, receive, acquire, own, or possess quantities of, or devices orequipment utilizing, radioactive material.