title: Image gently campaign back to basics initiative: ten steps to help manage radiation dose in pediatric digital radiography.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this review is to summarize 10 steps a practice can take to manage radiation exposure in pediatric digital radiography.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. dons@mir.wustl.edu
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Don
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Macdougall
authors.forename: Keith
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Strauss
authors.forename: Quentin T
authors.initials: QT
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Marilyn J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Goske
authors.forename: Mervyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Herrmann
authors.forename: Susan D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: John
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Noble
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: Lois
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lehman
authors.forename: Bruce R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Whiting
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001822:Body Burden; D002648:Child; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods*; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011835:Radiation Protection / Q000379:methods*; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D011874:Radiometry / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States