Issue 25 - October 2009


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Authors: N. Stritt, M. Dorthe (SFOPH, Switzerland)

Legal provisions

The use of ionising radiation in medicine in Switzerland is regulated by several ordinances. The Radiological Protection Ordinance provides a general framework and more detailed requirements are specified in technical Ordinances, such as the “Use of unsealed sources”, the “Use of sealed sources in medicine” and the “X-ray” Ordinances. In radiation therapy, requirements regarding Quality Assurance, such as dosimetry checks, are specified in the Ordinance on Medical Accelerators, with full details for the application given in the Swiss Society of Radiobiology and Medical Physics (SSRMP) Recommendation 11.