Image Gently Campaign Back to Basics Initiative: Ten Steps to Help Manage Radiation Dose in Pediatric Digital Radiography

Overview

Journal AJR Am J Roentgenol

Specialties Oncology
Radiology

Date 2013 Apr 27

PMID 23617510

Citations 15

Authors

Steven Don

Robert MacDougall

Keith Strauss

Quentin T Moore

Marilyn J Goske

Mervyn Cohen

Tracy Herrmann

Susan D John

Lauren Noble

Greg Morrison

Lois Lehman

Bruce R Whiting

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Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this review is to summarize 10 steps a practice can take to manage radiation exposure in pediatric digital radiography.

Conclusion: The Image Gently campaign raises awareness of opportunities for lowering radiation dose while maintaining diagnostic quality of images of children. The newest initiative in the campaign, Back to Basics, addresses methods for standardizing the approach to pediatric digital radiography, highlighting challenges related to the technology in imaging of patients of widely varying body sizes.

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