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What are the requirements for a Certified Nuclear Medicine Technologist to perform PET/CT?

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What are the requirements for a Certified Nuclear Medicine Technologist to perform PET/CT?

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In the state of New York, 2 perform injections of any radioisotope you should either be Nuc Med Tech or a nurse that has been given inservices by the health physicist or the Radiation Safety Officer (RSO), and are working under the direct supervision of a physician.

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2009->Ch0468->Section%20302#0468.302″ target=”_blank” title=”Opens in a new window”>S. 468.302(3)(g), FS, allows certified nuclear medicine technologists to perform the following: Conduct in vivo and in vitro measurements of radioactivity and administer radiopharmaceuticals to human beings for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes; and Administer X-radiation from a combination nuclear medicine-computed tomography device if that radiation is administered as an integral part of a nuclear medicine procedure that uses an automated computed tomography protocol for the purposes of attenuation correction and anatomical localization and the person has received device-specific training on the combination device. Certified nuclear medicine technologists are prohibited from performing: Radioimmunoassay and other clinical laboratory testing regulated pursuant to Chapter 483, F.S.; Creating or modifying automated computed tomography protocols; and Any other operation of a computed tomography device,

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