title: Pause and pulse: ten steps that help manage radiation dose during pediatric fluoroscopy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Image Gently Campaign of The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging seeks to increase awareness of opportunities to lower radiation dose in the imaging of children. Pause and Pulse is the most recent phase of the campaign, addressing methods of dose optimization in pediatric fluoroscopy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This article discusses 10 steps that can be taken for fluoroscopic dose optimization in pediatric diagnostic fluoroscopy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, J Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2200 Children's Way, Nashville, TN 37232-9700, USA.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernanz-Schulman
authors.forename: Marilyn J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Goske
authors.forename: Ishtiaq H
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Bercha
authors.forename: Keith J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Strauss
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005471:Fluoroscopy; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000193:education*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D011871:Radiology / Q000193:education*; D040241:Social Marketing; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States