Image Gently: Providing Practical Educational Tools and Advocacy to Accelerate Radiation Protection for Children Worldwide
The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging is an organization of over 45 international professional societies and agencies with the goal of promoting radiation safety for children. The Alliance, through the Image Gently campaign, uses social marketing techniques and critical partnerships with vendors, government agencies, and not-for-profit organizations, to advocate best practices in radiation use and safety. Advocacies include improving education regarding radiation risk to patients from medical imaging for radiologists, technologists, and referring physicians; promoting standardization of dose measurements and display across vendor equipment; and improving medical literacy for parents.
⁎Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
⁎⁎Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
††Department of Radiology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
‡‡Department of Public Affairs, American College of Radiology, Reston, VA
§§Division of Pediatric Radiology, McGovern Davison Children's Health Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
¶¶Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, Nashville, TN
⁎⁎⁎Radiologic Science Division of Diagnostic Imaging, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
†††Department of Marketing and Communications, American Society of Radiologic Technologists, Albuquerque, NM
‡‡‡American Society of Radiologic Technologists, Albuquerque, NM
Address reprint requests to Marilyn J. Goske, MD, Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, MLC 5031, 3333 Burnet Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039
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