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DIN EN IEC 60601-2-68 VDE 0750-2-68:2025-12

Medical electrical equipment

Part 2-68: Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of X-ray-based image-guided radiotherapy equipment for use with electron accelerators, light ion beam therapy equipment and radionuclide beam therapy equipment

(IEC 60601-2-68:2025); German version EN IEC 60601-2-68:2025
Class/Status: Standard, valid
Released: 2025-12
VDE Art. No.: 0701638

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This document deals with safety aspects of Megavolt-MV-) systems for imaging related to external beam system, electron accelerator, light ion- beam therapy system and radionuclid- beam therapy system.
Since the edition 1 was published changes took place in the standards environment.
The following standards relevant to x-igrt equipment were updated, or newly published:
– IEC 60601-2-1:2020, Requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of electron accelerators in the range 1 MeV to 50 MeV
– IEC 60601-2-64, Requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of light ion beam medical electrical equipment
– IEC TR 62926 has been modified during it’s development and was not published as an international standard but as a technical report and provides guidance for integration of electron accelerators with other equipment.
– IEC TR 63183 provides guidance on the construction of error and warning messages.
This amendment extends the scope of IEC 60601-2-68 to ct scanners, intended to be used in the same room with an external beam equipment.