When purchasing new imaging equipment, renovating an imaging room, or opening a medical facility, one of the most common questions we receive is:
“What are the radiation protection and shielding laws for my state?” Radiation shielding is not a one size fits all. Shielding requirements vary based on equipment type, workload and usage, room layout, adjacent rooms and occupancy, wall construction materials, beam direction and energy. That's why your state radiation agency and a qualified medical physicist are essential partners in your project.
Every U.S. state has its own radiation control program that regulates the design, construction, and operation of diagnostic imaging rooms. These agencies establish radiology shielding requirements, exposure limits, and inspection standards to protect staff, patients, and the public from unnecessary radiation exposure. This resource is essential for Radiology departments, imaging centers, hospitals, outpatient clinics, orthopedic practices, chiropractors, veterinarians, mobile imaging providers, construction & facility planners, equipment dealers and installers.
Start Here: Find Your State Radiation Control Agency
Use the directory below to contact your state’s radiation protection program. They will guide you through:
- Shielding design
- Physics evaluations
- Regulatory approval
- Facility licensing
Once you have those requirements, our team is here to help you implement them
- Alabama – Department of Public Health Radiation Rules
- Alaska – Radiological Health
- Arizona – Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency (ARRA)
- Arkansas – Arkansas Department of Health Radiation Control
- California – California Radiation Safety & Environmental Mgmt
- Colorado – Department of Public Health & Environment Radiation Control
- Connecticut – Connecticut Radiation Division
- Delaware – Delaware Office of Radiation Control
- Florida – FL Bureau of Radiation Control
- Georgia – Environmental Protection Division – Radiation Programs
- Hawaii – Indoor and Radiological Health Branch (IRH)
- Idaho – Idaho Lab and X-Ray Certification
- Illinois – Radiation Safety
- Indiana – Medical Radiology Services Program
- Iowa – Iowa Bureau of Radiological Health
- Kansas – Department of Health & Environment-Radiation
- Kentucky – Radiation Health Branch of KY
- Louisiana – Radiological Services
- Maine – Division of Environmental Health-X Ray Program | Radiation Control Program
- Maryland – Radiation Health Program
- Massachusetts – Radiation Control Program
- Michigan – Michigan Radiation Safety
- Minnesota – Department of Heath Radiation Control
- Mississippi – MS Division of Radiological Health
- Missouri – Radiation Control
- Montana – Radiographic Machine Registration
- Nebraska – Radiation Control
- Nevada – Radiation Control Program
- New Hampshire – NH Radiological Health
- New Jersey – Radiation Protection and Release Prevention
- New Mexico – NM Radiation Control Bureau
- New York – Radiological Preparedness
- North Carolina – Health & Human Services Radiation Protection
- North Dakota – Radiation Control Program
- Ohio – Radiological Health & Safety
- Oklahoma – OK – Protective Health X-Ray Tubes
- Oregon – Radiation Protection
- Pennsylvania – PA – Bureau of Radiation Protection
- Rhode Island – Radiation Control License Information and Registration
- South Carolina – Radiological Health
- South Dakota – SD – Department of Health X-Ray Facility Inspections
- Tennessee – TN – Radiation Control
- Texas – Radiation Control Program
- Utah – Division of Radiation Control X-Ray Section
- Vermont – Radiological Health
- Virginia – Department of Health X-Ray Machine Program
- Washington – Department of Health Radiation
- West Virginia – Radiological Health
- Wisconsin – Radiation Protection
- Wyoming – Department of Health – Wyoming Board of Radiologic Technologists