Abstract
With the goal of raising awareness and developing stakeholder educational tools for the appropriate imaging of children, the Image Gently campaign was launched in 2007. This campaign is a product of a multidisciplinary alliance with international representation which now numbers nearly 100 medical and dental professional societies and organisations, and includes regulatory organisations. The alliance focuses on increasing awareness and developing education materials that support the protection of children worldwide from unnecessary radiation in medicine. The alliance members work with agencies and regulatory bodies to improve standards and measures that are specific to children. The campaign has produced open source modules for all stakeholders regarding CT, fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology, digital radiography and dental imaging. The philosophy of the Image Gently steering committee is to collaborate, to share information freely, to keep messaging simple and to commit to lifelong learning. Many healthcare practitioners may not understand how to decrease children’s radiation exposure; the goal of Image Gently is to increase all stakeholders’ understanding of both the benefits and the risks and to encourage radiation reduction strategies. This article summarises the rationale and goals of the global campaign to date.
Highlights
Diagnostic imaging has revolutionised modern medicine. Many studies show that the appropriate use of radiology imaging tests saves lives and improves patient care
Determining the correct examination and dose is most important for children and adolescents, who are often more sensitive than adults to radiation, are potentially exposed to more lifetime risk from either early or ongoing exposures, and have a longer lifetime during which cancer from radiation exposure can develop
Image Gently efforts include partnering with equipment vendors and regulators to convene summits and discuss standard dose metrics across vendors, to explain the importance of accurate metrics for infants and children, and to have all stakeholders understand the consequences of radiation exposures in this unique population
Summary
Diagnostic imaging has revolutionised modern medicine. Many studies show that the appropriate use of radiology imaging tests saves lives and improves patient care. It is with this goal in mind that the Image Gently campaign seeks to educate concerned patients, families and healthcare professionals and to share information that will help to reduce radiation exposure to children and adolescents resulting from imaging. Initiated by a group of paediatric radiologists in 2007, Image Gently is an educational, awareness and advocacy campaign of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging.
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