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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" citation="COMAR 10.32.14.06" title_num="10" subtitle_num="32" chapter_num="14" heading="Scope of Practice.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An LXMO shall perform X-ray duties in a physician’s office under the immediately available supervision of a licensed physician or licensed radiologic technologist and in accordance with §B of this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>An individual registered as an LXMO may perform X-ray duties without a license only if the duties:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Do not include:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Computerized or non-computerized tomography;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Fluoroscopy;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Invasive radiology;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Mammography;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Nuclear medicine;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Radiation therapy; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>Xerography; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Are limited to X-ray procedures of the:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Chest;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Spine, including the:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Cervical spine;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Lumbar spine;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Sacroiliac joints;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Sacrum and coccyx; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>Thoracic spine;</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Lower extremities, including:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Toes;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>The foot;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>The ankle;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>The calcaneus;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>The tibia and fibula;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vi)">
          <text>The knee and patella; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vii)">
          <text>The femur; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Upper extremities, including:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Fingers;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>The hand;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>The wrist;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>The forearm;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>The elbow;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vi)">
          <text>The humerus;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(vii)">
          <text>The shoulder;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(viii)">
          <text>The clavicle;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ix)">
          <text>Acromioclavicular joints; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(x)">
          <text>The scapula.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>