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Title 12 - HEALTHAgency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHChapter 481 - VIRGINIA RADIATION PROTECTION REGULATIONSPart VII - Use of Radionuclides in the Healing Arts
Article 9 - Photon Emitting Remote Afterloader Units, Teletherapy Units, and Stereotactic Radiosurgery Units
Section 12VAC5-481-2044 - Dosimetry equipment

12 Va. Admin. Code § 5-481-2044

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Current through Register Vol. 41, No. 6, November 4, 2024
Section 12VAC5-481-2044 - Dosimetry equipment
A. Except for low dose-rate remote afterloader sources where the source output or activity is determined by the manufacturer, licensees shall have a calibrated dosimetry system available for use. To satisfy this requirement, one of the following two conditions shall be met.
1. The system shall have been calibrated using a system or source traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and published protocols accepted by nationally recognized bodies or by a calibration laboratory accredited by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM). The calibration shall have been performed within the previous two years and after any servicing that may have affected system calibration; or
2. The system shall have been calibrated within the previous four years. 18 to 30 months after that calibration, the system shall have been intercompared with another dosimetry system that was calibrated within the past 24 months by NIST or by a calibration laboratory accredited by the AAPM. The results of the intercomparison shall indicate that the calibration factor of the licensee's system had not changed by more than 2.0%. The licensee may not use the intercomparison result to change the calibration factor. When intercomparing dosimetry systems to be used for calibrating sealed sources for therapeutic units, the licensee shall use a comparable unit with beam attenuators or collimators, as applicable, and sources of the same radionuclide as the source used at the licensee's facility.
B. Licensees shall have a dosimetry system available for use for spot-check output measurements, if applicable. To satisfy this requirement, the system may be compared with a system that has been calibrated in accordance with subsection A of this section. This comparison shall have been performed within the previous year and after each servicing that may have affected system calibration. The spot-check system may be the same system used to meet the requirement in subsection A of this section.

12 Va. Admin. Code § 5-481-2044

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 32, Issue 24, eff. August 25, 2016.

Statutory Authority: § 32.1-229 of the Code of Virginia.