What do you need to know?

CT Information Launch page  

IR Information Launch page

NEW! Nuclear Medicine Launch Page

Educational Resources

For Everyone:  Visit the very informative Radiation Protection for Patients Website of the International Atomic Energy Agency

For Radiologists: Image Gently Web-based Practice Quality Improvement Program 

For Technologists:

• Online Modules
• NEW! Vendor-specific Modules  

 2008 CT Vendor Summit and 2010 CR/DR Vendor Summit on Video HERE 

Image Gently in the News

From the European Commission on Energy Website: Medical imaging specialists call for global referral guidelines - WHO HQ Geneva, Switzerland, 1-3 March 2010

Note: Alliance Steering Committee member, Dr. KImberly Applegate represented the Alliance at this meeting.

Medical imaging specialists from international, regional and national professional societies as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Commission, met in Geneva, 1-3 March, 2010 during the WHO consultation on "Referral Guidelines for Appropriate Use of Radiation Imaging.".

It was agreed to collaborate for producing a global set of evidence-based referral guidelines and to facilitate their implementation. Plans also call for monitoring their use and evaluating their impact in different clinical settings. This collaboration will include review, adaptation and expansion, as necessary, of existing guidelines to make them suitable for those countries where such referral tools still don't exist.

The ultimate purpose is to promote good medical practice through an appropriate use of medical imaging. Reduction of unnecessary radiation exposure by justification of radiological medical procedures is a major goal for the WHO Global Initiative on Radiation Safety in Health Care Settings and this international effort will contribute to that goal.

You can find more information at http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/about/med_exposure/en/index2.html

Campaign Honored

The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging leadership is pleased to announce that the image gently campaign has been named to the 2009 Associations Advance America Honor Roll. The award, sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives, recognizes the ways nonprofit associations improve the quality of life in America.  Read the press release on the ACR website...
 

National Quality Forum 2009 addresses Pediatric Imaging

 The National Quality Forum (NQF) included in its recently released 2009 Safe Practices for Better Healthcare language advising health care professionals that “when CT imaging studies are undertaken on children, ‘child-size’ techniques should be used to reduce unnecessary exposure to ionizing radiation.”   Read more...... 

More news

• State of New York, Department of Health sends image gently message to NY physicians. Read it here.
• Listen to: Pediatric MDCT Protocol Workshop: Image Quality vs. Dose (audio only) Presented at SPR 2008
• Radiation Risks and Pediatric Computed Tomography (CT): A Guide for Health Care Providers - from NCI and SPR
• Incorporating Radiation Dose Assessments Into the ACR Appropriateness Criteria® - from JACR
• FDA Consumer Update: Radiology & Children: Extra Care Required
• From the Pediatric Emergency Physician community:  ALARA: is there a cause for alarm? Reducing radiation risks from computed tomography scanning in children- Current Opinion in Pediatrics, July 2008
• The Image Gently Campaign supported by a Congressional Resolution
• Image Gently is now an international movement with these new organizations joining the Alliance: Canadian Association of Radiologists, the Sociedad Latino Americana de Radiologia Pediatrica, the Asian-Oceanic Society for Paediatric Radiology,  The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists and on 9/2/08, the European Society of Paediatric Radiology.   
   

Interventional Radiology Campaign 

The Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging

encourages increased awareness of opportunities to lower radiation dose in pediatric interventional radiology procedures with the introduction of its new campaign message:

 Step Lightly..... 
 Visit the Step Lightly page for helpful information for both health care professionals and parents.