IEC 60601-2-17:1989 ED1

Medical electrical equipment. Part 2: Particular requirements for the safety of remote-controlled automatically-driven gamma-ray afterloading equipment IEC 60601-2-17:1989 ED1

Publication date:   Sep 30, 1989

Scope

This publication establishes particular requirements for the safety of remote-controlled automatically-driven electromedical equipment for gamma-ray therapy of human subjects using afterloading. Its specifications include requirements for equipment which contain and use only gamma-ray sealed radioactive sources and which automatically drive such sources. It does not apply to neutron radioactive sources.