Section 8701. Definitions

As used in this article:
    1. "Clinical" shall mean activities directly relating to the treatment
  or diagnosis of human ailments.
    2.  "Specialty" or "specialty area" shall mean the following branch or
  branches of special competence within medical physics:
    (a) "Diagnostic radiological physics" shall mean the branch of medical
  physics  relating  to  the  diagnostic  application  of  radiation,  the
  analysis  and  interpretation of image quality, performance measurements
  and the calibration of equipment associated with the production and  use
  of  such  radiation,  the  analysis  and  interpretation of measurements
  associated with patient doses and exposures, and  the  radiation  safety
  aspects associated with the production and use of such radiation;
    (b)  "Medical health physics" shall mean the branch of medical physics
  pertaining to the radiation safety aspects of the use of  radiation  for
  both  diagnostic  and  therapeutic purposes, and the use of equipment to
  perform appropriate radiation measurements;
    (c) "Medical nuclear physics" shall mean the branch of medical physics
  pertaining  to   the   therapeutic   and   diagnostic   application   of
  radionuclides,  excluding  those  used in sealed sources for therapeutic
  purposes, the analysis and interpretation  of  performance  measurements
  associated with radiation imaging equipment and performance oversight of
  radionuclide   calibration   equipment   associated  with  the  use  and
  production  of  radionuclides,  the  analysis  and   interpretation   of
  measurements  and  calculations associated with patient organ doses, and
  the radiation safety aspects associated with the production and  use  of
  such radionuclides; and
    (d) "Therapeutic radiological physics" or "radiation oncology physics"
  shall  mean  the  branch  of medical physics relating to the therapeutic
  application of radiation, the analysis and interpretation  of  radiation
  equipment  performance  measurements  and  the  calibration of equipment
  associated with the production and use of such radiation,  the  analysis
  and  interpretation  of  measurements associated with patient doses, and
  the radiation safety aspects associated with the production and  use  of
  such radiation.
    3.  "Medical  physics" shall mean the branch of physics limited to the
  field of radiological physics.
    4. "Radiation" shall mean  all  ionizing  radiation  above  background
  levels  or  any  non-ionizing radiation used in diagnostic imaging or in
  radiation oncology.
    5. "Radiological physics" shall mean diagnostic radiological  physics,
  therapeutic  radiological physics or radiation oncology physics, medical
  nuclear physics and medical health physics.
    6.  "Radiological  procedure"  shall  mean  any   test,   measurement,
  calculation  or  radiation  exposure  for  the  purpose  of diagnosis or
  treatment of any medical condition of  a  human,  including  therapeutic
  radiation,  diagnostic  imaging  and  measurements, and nuclear medicine
  procedures.