ISO TS 80004-7:2011 ED1

Nanotechnologies - Vocabulary - Part 7: Diagnostics and therapeutics for healthcare ISO TS 80004-7:2011 ED1

Publication date:   Oct 1, 2011

Scope

ISO/TS 80004-7:2011 is applicable to the use of nanotechnologies in medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Terms relating to the applications of nanotechnology in healthcare might also be addressed in other parts of ISO/TS 80004 and in other documents. Terms relating to the exploitation of material features at the nanoscale for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in relation to human disease come within the scope of ISO/TS 80004-7:2011. Nanoscale properties can be embodied in materials that contain nanoscale elements, or are themselves of nanoscale dimensions. ISO/TS 80004-7:2011 provides consistent and unambiguous use of terms for healthcare professionals, manufacturers, consumers, technologists, patent agents, regulators, NGOs, and researchers, etc.