New Standard from Last Update.

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 6) which is identical with ISO 12749-6 : 2020 ‘Nuclear energy, nuclear technologies, and radiological protection - Vocabulary - Part 6: Nuclear medicine’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Applications Sectional Committee and approval of the Chemical Division Council.

This part of IS 16902 provides terms and definitions for nuclear medicine, the medical discipline whereby radionuclides as unsealed sources are administered to patients, in order to carry out diagnostic exams, therapeutic treatments for various pathologies and to monitor the evolution of the disease.