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[BLHamrick at aol.com]

Just to clarify, the U.S. NRC will be regulating PET imaging in  
non-Agreement States upon the effective date of the NARM rule (or after a  limited 
transition period), which should be published soon.  For the most  part, Agreement 
States already regulate the use of linear accelerators in  medical radiation, 
diagnostic x-ray procedures and PET, although the regulation  is independent of 
their Agreement with the NRC.
 
Just wanted to set the record straight.
 
Barbara L. Hamrick, JD, CHP
 
In a message dated 8/27/2007 8:09:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
crispy_bird at yahoo.com writes:

For your  information, the NRC does not regulate the
use of linear accelerators in  medical radiaton, nor
diagnostic x-ray procedures, nor PET  imaging.


 



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