COMMITTEE ON PHYSICS AND RADIATION SAFETY REPORT
- The Ohio Department of Health has continued to propose new rules for the healing arts in radiation oncology for 1MV and 1MV and CT. The undersigned were in attendance of the many comment review sessions. The proposals which would require the use of NIST calibrated or referable instrumentation in the performance of the measurement was taken verbatim from the SSR. However the national calibration laboratory does not provide a calibration to CT chambers.
Action Item: ODH has generated overburdening proposed rules for the radiation innocuous procedure of Bone Densitometry, where imaging dose is less than 0.0007 rads or 0.000007 Sieverts. The SSR was followed without conscience. OSRS should ask for its elimination.
- Dr. Thomas Seward, Immediate-Past President of OSRS, had received a letter of participation in CRCPD. In the early 1980’s, Otha Linton, ACR Associate Director, initiated an educational symposium at the annual Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors. He established a wine & cheese gathering for the attendees and a breakfast for ACR staffers, ACR chapter representatives and the executive committee of CRCPD. Some of these activities are continued today. California has always sent a radiologist and a medical physicist to the sessions. CRCPD generates the Suggested State Regulations (SSR) with assistance from ACR. Some states, such as Ohio, have held the guides, SSR, as an irrefutable document. Upon his retirement from ACR, Otha is on the CRCPD staff.
Action Item: OSRS should resume the liaison with CRCPD in their annual meeting. This would ensure a closer alignment with the primary administration of Ohio in radiation control.
George W. Callendine, Jr. PhD
Jerome G. Dare, PhD., MS
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