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patient, positioning the equipment and positioning the image | receptor. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 16.__Radiopharmaceutical.__"Radiopharmaceutical" means a | radioactive substance approved for administration to a patient to | provide diagnostic information or deliver treatment for a | specific disease. |
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| | Sec. 2. 32 MRSA §9853, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1999, c. 687, Pt. E, | §8, is further amended to read: |
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| | 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. |
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| A. Radiologist members may be appointed from lists | submitted by the Maine Radiological Society. |
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| B. The radiation physicist member may be appointed from | lists submitted by the Maine Radiological Society. |
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| C. Radiologic technologist members may be appointed from lists | submitted by the Maine Society of Radiologic |
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