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(1) be in the course of the practitioner’s professional practice for clinical purposes; and

(2) comply with the requirements of this chapter. (b) The application of radiation to an individual for purposes unrelated to the individual’s healthcare, such as for training, practicing, demonstrating, or other purpose for which the individual does not receive a health-based clinical benefit, is prohibited. (c) The use of a medical fluoroscope

(1) without image intensification for the application of ionizing radiation to an individual is prohibited;

(2) for pre-positioning a patient for a non-fluoroscopic study is prohibited. (d) The use of a fluoroscope for shoe fitting purposes, other than by a physician or chiropodist, is prohibited. (Eff. 4/9/2009, Register 190) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 18.60.475 AS 18.60.485 AS 18.60.525 7 AAC 18.210. External radiation limits in controlled area. (a) A registrant shall possess, use, receive, and transfer sources of ionizing radiation in a controlled area with adequate safeguards to assure that an individual worker’s total occupational exposure to all sources of ionizing radiation in the registrant’s possession during any span of a calendar year, from both external and internal exposures, does not exceed the following dose limits:

(1) an annual limit which is the lesser of the

(A) total effective dose equivalent of five rems (0.05 Sv); or

(B) sum of the deep-dose equivalent and the committed dose equivalent to any individual organ or tissue other than the lens of the eye of 50 rems (0.5 Sv); and

(2) the annual limits to the lens of the eye, to the skin of the whole body, and to the skin of the extremities are a

(A) lens dose equivalent of 15 rems (0.15 Sv); and