This document specifies the performance and testing of DOSE AREA PRODUCT METERS intended to measure DOSE AREA PRODUCT and/or DOSE AREA PRODUCT RATE to which the PATIENT is exposed during MEDICAL RADIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
This document is applicable to the following types of DOSE AREA PRODUCT METERS:
a) FIELD-CLASS DOSE AREA PRODUCT METERS normally used for the measurement of DOSE AREA PRODUCTS duringMEDICAL RADIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS;
b) REFERENCE-CLASS DOSE AREA PRODUCT METERS normally used for the CALIBRATION of FIELD-CLASS DOSIMETERS,
NOTE REFERENCE-CLASS DOSE AREA PRODUCT METERS can be used as FIELD-CLASS DOSE AREA PRODUCT METERS.
