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Practice Type |
Description |
| 1. Users and handlers of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials | |
| Laboratories | Laboratories that handle some amounts of NORM material for testing purposes |
| Water Treatment and Purification | Users of radioactive tracers in water treatment activities |
| Ceramics and Building Materials | Producers of ceramics / building material |
| Scrap Processors and Scrap smelters | |
| Fertilizer Producers | Users / handlers of phosphate |
| Mining and Mineral Processing | |
| 2. Human imaging for security purposes | |
| Whole body Scanning | Use of x-ray devices in human imaging for the purposes of theft detection |
| 3. Exploration and underground studies | |
| Well Logging and Tracing | Well logging sources |
| 4. Industrial radiography | |
| Diamond Sorting | Use of x-ray devices for the sorting of diamond mines |
| Portal Monitoring (Non-Intrusive Scanners) | Use of linear accelerators, Co-60 for the inspection of cargo through non-intrusive means. |
| Industrial Gamma Radiography | Use of radioactive sources for Non -Destructive Testing of material i.e 1r-192 |
| Industrial Gauging (Level, Density, Moisture Density, In-Stream Analysis) | |
| Baggage Scanners | X-ray security units used at ports of entry for checking baggage |
| 5. Industrial X-Ray Generators | |
| X-ray radiography units | NDT testing equipment |
| Analysers | XRF Units |
| 6. Radiotherapy | |
| Brachytherapy | High and Medium Dose rate brachytherapy facilities |
| Teletherapy | High energy Linear accelerators, Co-60 facilities |
| 7. Nuclear Medicine Facilities | |
| Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine | Radiopharmaceuticals |
| Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine | Radiopharmaceuticals |
| 8. Medical Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology | |
| General radiology | Fixed and mobile x-ray devices and facilities, C-arms |
| Fluoroscopy devices | Fluoroscopy machines |
| Mammography devices | Mammography units |
| Bone densitometry devices | Bone densitometers |
| Computed tomography | CT Scanners |
| Gamma Knife | Gamma Knife units |
| Cyber Knife Tomotherapy | Cyber Knife units |
| 9. Veterinary Radiography | X-ray units used in veterinary practices |
| 10. Dental Radiography | Dental x-ray devices |
| 11. Academic and Research | Radioisotopes used for educational and research purposes, electron capture devices |
| 12. Service Providers |
Suppliers, installers, maintenance service providers of equipment, sources. Consultants |