Do I need to hold an NRC License in order to lease Nuclear Medicine or PET Scan time at IDC?
No, it is not necessary for individual leasing physicians to be licensed in nuclear medicine. The IDC facility must and will be licensed. A designated safety officer must provide oversight to ensure the center continually meets licensure requirements, and typically performs quarterly audits. This safety officer is designated by IDC and may be a leasing physician, a separately contracted physician or a nuclear physicist. In addition, any physician reading individual patient studies must be licensed in Nuclear Medicine. However, as indicated in the “radiology” question above, the leasing physician group may arrange with whomever they choose to perform this function.
