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NRC will be involved in PET imaging to the extent they are involved in  other 
nuclear medicine imaging - i.e., they will be regulating PET  
radiopharmaceuticals used in diagnostic imaging procedures to the same extent  that they 
currently regulate the use of technetium-99m in diagnostic imaging  procedures.
 
It is true that the NRC does not (and will not in the foreseeable future)  
regulate medical accelerators where nothing is produced for commercial  
distribtuion.  The Agreement States (and many non-Agreement States),  however, will 
continue to regulate these machines as they have over many  years.
 
Barbara L. Hamrick, JD, CHP
 
 
In a message dated 8/29/2007 6:17:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
crispy_bird at yahoo.com writes:

To  clarify, as the owner of PET-production cyclotrons
and scanners, we are  under the understanding that the
NRC will be involved with the licensing of  medical
cyclotrons that produce radionuclides for PET imaging.
They will  not be involved with PET imaging.  The NRC
will, hopefully, confine  their involvement to  the
security and inventoring of PET  produced
radionuclides, and worker exposures.  The NRC will not
be  licensing and regulation medical accelerators of
patient treatment because  nothing radioactive is
produced for distribution.

We learned that  even though we produce PET
radionuclides that do not leave out facility, we  are
"producing" facility as if you were a commercial
radiopharmcy.   






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