Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ The FOPH shall sur­vey on a reg­u­lar basis, but at least every ten years, the ra­di­ation doses re­ceived by the pop­u­la­tion from med­ic­al ex­pos­ures.

² It may re­quest from li­cence hold­ers an­onymised data on thera­peut­ic, dia­gnost­ic, in­ter­ven­tion­al or nuc­le­ar medi­cine ap­plic­a­tions, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

time and type of ap­plic­a­tion and ana­tom­ic­al re­gion;

b.

ex­pos­ure para­met­ers;

c.

ra­di­ation dose or activ­ity levels;

d.

in­stall­a­tion spe­cific­a­tions;

e.

sex, age, height and weight of pa­tients;

f.

num­ber of in­di­vidu­al ex­pos­ures per ap­plic­a­tion, clas­si­fied by type and ana­tom­ic­al re­gion.

³ It may re­quest third parties to pre­pare stat­ist­ics. For this pur­pose, it shall provide them with the ne­ces­sary data.