* Be a team player:
- Involve medical physicists to monitor pediatric CT techniques
- Involve technologists to optimize scanning
These are the central messages of the Image Gently(tm) campaign conducted by the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, founded by the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR), the American College of Radiology (ACR), the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT), and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), now encompassing 29 medical organizations from the United States and around the world.
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The Image Gently campaign has to date focused on computed tomography (CT) scans. There were approximately 4 million pediatric CT scans performed in 2006. In fact, the number of pediatric CT scans performed in the United States has tripled in the last five years as rapidly evolving CT technology replaces more invasive and often more costly techniques. The Image Gently campaign is an effort to help ensure that medical protocols for the imaging of children keep pace with advancing technology.
In addition to the patient education tools mentioned above housed in the "Parents" section of the Image Gently Alliance Web site, Information
brochures are now also available on the American Academy of Pediatrics (www.aap.org) web site for parents and pediatricians.
The Image Gently site (www.imagegently.org) also contains the latest research and educational materials to aid radiologists, radiologic technologists, medical physicists, and other imaging stakeholders in determining the appropriate radiation techniques to be used in the imaging of children and how the radiation received from these exams may affect pediatric patients over time. A key feature of the web site is a library of helpful protocols that can be used to lower the dose estimates utilized in the imaging of children.
Health care providers are urged to visit the Image Gently Web site
(www.imagegently.org) and pledge to do their part to "child-size" the radiation dose used in children's imaging.
Source: ACR
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