[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR35.406]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 35--MEDICAL USE OF BYPRODUCT MATERIAL--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart G--Sources for Brachytherapy
 
Sec. 35.406  Brachytherapy sources inventory.

    (a) Promptly after removing them from a patient or a human research 
subject, a licensee shall return brachytherapy sources to the storage 
area, and count the number returned to ensure that all sources taken 
from the storage area have been returned.
    (b) A licensee shall make a record of brachytherapy source use which 
must include:
    (1) The names of the individuals permitted to handle the sources;
    (2) The number and activity of sources removed from storage, the 
patient's or the human research subject's name and room number, the time 
and date they were removed from storage, the number and activity of the 
sources in storage after the removal, and the initials of the individual 
who removed the sources from storage;
    (3) The number and activity of sources returned to storage, the 
patient's or the human research subject's name and room number, the time 
and date they were returned to storage, the number and activity of 
sources in storage after the return, and the initials of the individual 
who returned the sources to storage.
    (c) Immediately after implanting sources in a patient or a human 
research subject the licensee shall make a radiation survey of the 
patient or the human research subject and the area of use to confirm 
that no sources have been misplaced. The licensee shall make a record of 
each survey.
    (d) A licensee shall retain the records required in paragraphs (b) 
and (c) of this section for three years.

[51 FR 36951, Oct. 16, 1986, as amended at 53 FR 19247, May 27, 1988; 59 
FR 61785, Dec. 2, 1994]

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