ARSD 44:03:01:08. Prohibited uses of radiation

A licensee may not expose a person to diagnostic or therapeutic radiation except for healing arts purposes and only if the exposure has been authorized by a licensed practitioner of the healing arts or as permitted by 42 U.S.C. § 263b in effect on October 25, 2004, with reports going to the person's health care provider for follow-up. A licensee may not expose a person to the useful beam for non-healing arts training, instruction, or demonstration. The following X-radiation producing equipment may not be used and the following specified procedures may not be performed: (1) Fluoroscopic devices for fitting shoes; (2) Photofluorographic equipment; (3) Intraoral fluoroscopy for dental examinations; (4) Hand-held radiographic or fluoroscopic imaging devices, except for intra-oral radiographic imaging devices; (5) The use of fluoroscopy for positioning a patient for general radiographic imaging, except for radiation therapy simulators; (6) The use of fluoroscopy and c-arm X ray systems by a person other than a licensed practitioner of the healing arts unless under the supervision of a licensed practitioner of the healing arts; (7) The use of direct exposure X ray film, without intensifying screens, for routine diagnostic procedures other than intraoral dental radiography, therapeutic portal imaging, and industrial radiography; (8) Nonimage intensified fluoroscopic X ray equipment; or (9) The use of X ray equipment for mammography unless specifically designed by the manufacturer for the imaging of the breast.