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.
Goske
Marilyn J
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Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. marilyn.Goske@cchmc.org
Applegate
Kimberly E
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Bell
Coreen
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Boylan
Jennifer
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Bulas
Dorothy
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Butler
Penny
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Callahan
Michael J
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Coley
Brian D
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Farley
Shawn
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Frush
Donald P
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McElveny
Ceela
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Hernanz-Schulman
Marta
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Johnson
Neil D
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Kaste
Sue C
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Morrison
Gregory
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Strauss
Keith J
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