BS EN 60601-2-17:2015 PDF

What is BS EN 60601-2-17 - Brachytherapy afterloading equipment about?

BS EN 60601-2-17 is a standard that covers brachytherapy afterloading equipment, ensuring operational safety and stability in brachytherapy applications. BS EN 60601-2-17 applies to the BASIC SAFETY and ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE of automatically-controlled BRACHYTHERAPY AFTERLOADING ME EQUIPMENT, hereafter referred to as ME EQUIPMENT. BS EN 60601-2-17 applies to automatically-controlled BRACHYTHERAPY AFTERLOADING ME EQUIPMENT used for treatment or alleviation of disease. BS EN 60601-2-17 specifies requirements for automatically-controlled AFTERLOADING ME EQUIPMENT:

Which contains and uses only beta, gamma, or NEUTRON-emitting SEALED RADIOACTIVE SOURCES, or BRACHYTHERAPY X-RAY SOURCES designed and constructed for use with automatically-controlled AFTERLOADING ME EQUIPMENT Which automatically drives the RADIATION SOURCE(S) from a STORAGE CONTAINER or, in the case of BRACHYTHERAPY X-RAY SOURCES, a reference location outside the PATIENT, to a treatment position inside the SOURCE APPLICATOR(S) and returns the RADIATION SOURCE(S) to the STORAGE CONTAINER or the BRACHYTHERAPY X-RAY SOURCE(S) to the reference location