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About Image Gently
The Image Gently Alliance is a coalition of health care organizations dedicated to providing safe, high quality pediatric imaging worldwide. The primary objective of the Alliance is to raise awareness in the imaging community of the need to adjust radiation dose when imaging children.
Improve safe and effective imaging care of children worldwide.
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The mission of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging (the Image Gently Alliance) is, through advocacy, to improve safe and effective imaging care of children worldwide.
Radiation Effects and Sources from…
“While the scientific community has published information on radiation sources and effects, it has tended to be technical and…
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Image Gently Pledge
Click here to take the pledge to Image Gently! Your involvement is a key reason the campaign has…
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Roles: What Can I Do?
Just as you do now, be every child’s advocate. Learn more about the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of…
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Latest News
Optimizing Communication With Parents on Benefits and Radiation Risks in Pediatric Imaging
From JACR Nima Kasraie, PhD; David Jordan, PhD; Christopher Keup, MD; Sjirk Westra, MD Abstract Effective radiation risk communication is…
Impact of low dose settings on radiation exposure during pediatric fluoroscopic guided interventions
Moritz Wildgruber, Michael Köhler, Richard Brill, Holger Goessmann, Wibke Uller, René Müller-Wille, Walter A. Wohlgemuth Abstract Purpose To evaluate the…
Kimberly Applegate, MD, MS, FACR, FAAP presented perspectives from both the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and the Image Gently Alliance at the 2019 Beebe Symposium
Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium: The Future of Low-Dose Radiation Research in the United States May 8-9, 2019, Washington, DC Panel…
Image Gently has been a valuable resource for parents and other caregivers as well as for health care providers, providing a wealth of accurate and balanced information on the use of x-rays in children for medical imaging. Today, the success of Image Gently is globally recognized as it became a benchmark for paediatric medical imaging worldwide.
Although [there are] a seemingly exhaustive supply of internet resources, a rare few are meaningful. I am very thankful for both [Image Gently and the World Health Organization for Communication Risks in Imaging] websites as they are stand-alones for being user-friendly and deployable…thus, I share them with my students!
I wanted to extend my sincere appreciation …. The information you have provided has relieved my anxiety and I am truly grateful.
This experience with Image Gently has raised our awareness and clarified radiation amidst much online confusion.