(a) A physician shall have overall responsibility for the service. This physician shall be certified or eligible for certification by the appropriate specialty board, as follows: the conjoint American Board of Nuclear Medicine or one of its parent boards: American Board of Radiology, American Board of Pathology or American Board of Internal Medicine.

(b) Where appropriate, technologists with training and experience in handling radionuclides in either of the three disciplines of radiology, nuclear medicine or pathology shall be employed in sufficient number to accomplish the mission of the service.

(c) A radiological physicist should be available to the nuclear medicine service.