PD IEC/TR 61948-1 is an international standard that focuses on gamma radiation counting systems and routine test instrumentation about nuclear medicine. PD IEC/TR 61948-1 describes test methods of instruments that count and measure the energy of photons emitted by radionuclides in vivo and in vitro without the option of imaging. PD IEC/TR 61948-1 includes, for example, well counters and organ probes.
PD IEC/TR 61948-1 on gamma radiation counting systems and routine test instrumentation about nuclear medicine is useful for:
Nuclear medicine is a medical speciality that uses radioactive tracers (radiopharmaceuticals) to assess bodily functions and to diagnose and treat disease. Nuclear medicine imaging, in a sense, is "radiology did inside out" or "endoradiology" because it records radiation emitting from within the body rather than radiation that is generated by external sources like X-rays.
PD IEC/TR 61948-1 helps to use hospitals, surgical centres, oncology clinics or any other facility where cancerous tumours are biopsied or removed. PD IEC/TR 61948-1 also informs that gamma radiation detection devices are important ways to track the radiation that is administered to patients who have cancer. Using PD IEC/TR 61948-1 you can describe test methods of instruments that count and measure the energy of photons emitted by radionuclides in vivo and in vitro without the option of imaging.
PD IEC/TR 61948-1:2016 supersedes PD IEC/TR 61948-1:2001 which has been withdrawn. PD IEC/TR 61948-1:2016 has been editorially revised.
IEC TR 61948-1:2016