Registration and safety requirements for radiation emitting machines in the healing arts—medicine, podiatry, dental, chiropractic, and veterinary medicine, ch 40
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Activation of tube Additional requirements when the viewing system is a window Additional requirements when the viewing system is by mirrors Additional requirements when the viewing system is electronic Administrative controls Air kerma rates Alternate viewing system as backup Alternative to warning devices Aural communication Auxiliary support Battery charge indicator Beam quality Beam-on and shutter status indicators and control switches Beam-on indicators Calibration Compliance or prior approval by department Compliance prior to operation Computed tomography X-ray systems Conditions of operation Cone-beam CT (CBCT) X-ray systems; equipment requirements Correction of EPE results CT operating procedures Definitions Design requirements for an operator’s booth Display of last-image-hold (LIH) Displays of values of AKR and cumulative air kerma Dose information Dose-area-product monitor requirements Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) EPE following installation or modifications EPE frequency EPEs for service and installation Equipment Equipment operation Equipment performance evaluation (EPE) Exposure control location and operator protection Exposure to the useful beam Extraoral, panoramic, and cephalometric units Facility design requirements Facility requirements Federal performance standards for equipment Field limitation Fluoroscopic equipment Fluoroscopic irradiation time, display, and signal General provisions General regulatory requirements General requirements for all diagnostic X-ray systems Handheld intraoral equipment Healing arts screening program Imaging performance information Indication of potential and current Information to be provided for users Intraoral dental units Invasive breast localization X-ray machines Leakage radiation from the diagnostic source assembly Maintaining compliance Maintenance of records Measuring compliance of equipment parameters Medical cabinet X-ray machine for nonhuman use Multiple tubes On-site personnel Operating procedures Operation of the DXA system Operator competency and training Operator requirements Operators of dental X-ray systems Personnel monitoring devices Primary protective barrier Procedures Procedures and auxiliary equipment Protection from scatter radiation Protective apparel Protocol—no operational anatomic programming Quality assurance (QA) Radiation exposure control panel Radiation protection shielding survey Radiation safety program elements for remote CT Records of EPE results Registrant Remote CT scanning requirements Requirements for equipment Routine QC (spot checks) Shielding Shielding plan review Source-skin distance Space requirements Structural requirements Supervision of fluoroscopy Surveys, calibrations, and routine QC System performance evaluation Systems designed for mammography Technique indicators Timers Tomographic plane indication and alignment Tube stands for portable X-ray systems Veterinary CT systems Veterinary handheld equipment Veterinary medicine X-ray systems Viewing system requirements Viewing systems Visual indication Warning devices Warning label Written safety procedures X-ray digital image processing facilities using CR or DDR X-ray film processing X-ray systems used for dental imaging X-ray utilization records© 2025 State of Iowa | Privacy Policy