US · guidance
CMS SOM App. D, Tag H0043
§486.108(a) Standard - Tube Housing and Devices to Restrict the Useful
Beam
The tube housing is of diagnostic type. Diaphragms, cones, or adjustable
collimators capable of restricting the useful beam to the area of clinical interest,are
used and provide the same degree of protection as is required of the housing.
________________________________________________________________________
History
Rev. 28; Issued: 09-07-07; Effective/Implementation Date: 09-07-07
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-22
- Edition
- som-2026-07-22
- Content hash
24a27ec64b79ac0a419402f020661fca5106b1c38c48a22a5406f601d0d8bb07
The link goes to the issuing authority’s own document — the one we read to produce this record. Where a source publishes whole titles rather than sections, your browser may need a moment to jump to the provision.
Unofficial copy of government-published law, reproduced from official sources with full provenance. Not an official publication; verify against official sources before relying on it in a filing. Records in the 'guidance' corpus, and only that corpus, are sub-regulatory (interpretive guidelines, survey procedures) and are not binding law. Validity bounds follow each jurisdiction's declared temporalBasis.