Image Gently Vendor Summit: working together for better estimates of pediatric radiation dose from CT.
OBJECTIVE
Medical physicists currently use two standardized phantoms to estimate CT patient radiation dose. This "one-size-fits-all" adult model results in underestimates of displayed pediatric CT radiation dose on the console of current CT scanners. The purpose of this article is to discuss the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging Vendor Summit.


CONCLUSIONS
Stakeholders were invited to discuss the development of better estimates of pediatric patient radiation dose. These stakeholders agreed to partner to improve CT radiation dose estimates for children.
Strauss
Keith J
KJ
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115-5737, USA.
Goske
Marilyn J
MJ
Frush
Donald P
DP
Butler
Priscilla F
PF
Morrison
Gregory
G
D002648:Child; D003132:Commerce; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D006801:Humans; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed