caa a22 4500 397502559 CHVBK 20180308164536.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082502 doi 0144-8420 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082502 Puschert (INVITED) W. INVITED IEC Projects and Achievements in the Field of Quality Assurance in Diagnostic Radiology [Elektronische Daten] [W. Puschert (INVITED)] Since its foundation in 1968, IEC Technical Committee 62 'Electrical equipment in medical practice' and its subcommittees have issued about 60 publications, most of them dealing with safety requirements for equipment. These safety requirements cover all aspects of safety, not only as often supposed, electrical and mechanical safety. For example, requirements for protection against excessive temperatures, abnormal operation and fault conditions as well as protection against hazards from unwanted or excessive radiation are also included. Two main parts of these comprehensive activities will be presented: (1) Radiation protection by preventive measures incorporated into medical electrical equipment. For patients or occupationally exposed persons, exposure to ionising radiation may exceed tolerable limits established for a member of the public, therefore the following measures have to be considered: (a) adequate provisions have to be made to protect patient, operator and other persons; (b) tolerable limits for equipment intended to emit radiation are specified in Collateral and Particular Standards; and (c) tolerable limits for equipment emitting unwanted X radiation are specified in a General Standard and in Particular Standards. (2) Quality assurance programmes which describe methods and provide guidelines for individual items of equipment or systems of equipment used in medical imaging departments. Test methods to be carried out on the user's responsibility will be described to achieve and maintain: (a) radiological information of adequate quality for medical diagnostic purposes; (b) minimum radiation dose to patients and medical staff, compatible with adequate quality of the radiological information; and (c) maximum cost containment by minimising wastage of time and resources (e.g. by reducing the number of rejected radiograms). Special emphasis will be placed on mutual effects between these main parts. Radiation Protection Dosimetry Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 57/1-4(1995-01-01), 91-94 0144-8420 57:1-4<91 1995 57 rpd https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082502 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082502 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Puschert (INVITED) W. INVITED NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 57/1-4(1995-01-01), 91-94 0144-8420 57:1-4<91 1995 57 rpd Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford