title: Image Gently: providing practical educational tools and advocacy to accelerate radiation protection for children worldwide.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA. marilyn.Goske@cchmc.org
authors.forename: Marilyn J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Goske
authors.forename: Kimberly E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Applegate
authors.forename: Coreen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Boylan
authors.forename: Dorothy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bulas
authors.forename: Penny
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Butler
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Callahan
authors.forename: Brian D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Coley
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Farley
authors.forename: Donald P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Frush
authors.forename: Ceela
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McElveny
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernanz-Schulman
authors.forename: Neil D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Sue C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Kaste
authors.forename: Gregory
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authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: Keith J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Strauss
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D012952:Societies; D012958:Societies, Scientific; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed