BS EN 61223-3-1:1999

Evaluation and routine testing in medical imaging departments. Acceptance tests | Status: Current, Superseded

1 Scope and object

1.1 Scope

This part of IEC 61223 applies to those components of X-ray equipment which influence the image quality and patient dose of diagnostic X-ray systems using radiographic and radioscopic imaging systems. This standard applies to the performance of X-ray equipment in the acceptance test on the following medical diagnostic X-ray equipment and associated equipment:

• — radiography equipment, for example:
  • • stationary radiography equipment;
  • • mobile radiography equipment;
  • • skull radiography equipment;
  • • lung radiography equipment;
  • • tomography equipment — excluding computed tomography;
  • • radiography devices (spotfilm devices) in radioscopy equipment;
  • • angiography equipment (excluding DSA function);
  • • cineradiography equipment;
• — radioscopy equipment, including:
  • • combined radiographic and radioscopic equipment.

This standard applies to the generation of X-radiation and accessories of digital systems. It does not apply to any digital image acquisition or image processing parts of the above mentioned diagnostic X-ray equipment.

NOTE Since the characterization of digital detectors and image processing is still under development, this will be included in a later edition of this standard.

This standard does not apply to mammographic X-ray equipment, radiotherapy simulators, nor to dental X-ray equipment.