Image Gently™ Campaign

The Image Gently™ campaign was founded by the American College of Radiology, the Society for Pediatric Radiology, the American Society of Radiologic Technologists, and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. The campaign is raising awareness about opportunities to lower radiation dose used in pediatric imaging exams. Rye Radiology Associates supports the campaign and encourages parents to visit the Image Gently™ web site www.imagegently.org where materials such as “My Child’s Medical Imaging Record” can be found.   Maintaining an imaging record can help future medical providers make more informed decisions regarding optimal timing of additional radiologic examinations “Children are not just ‘smaller adults.’ Their bodies are different and require a different approach to imaging,” said Marilyn Goske, M.D., chair of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, board chair of the SPR, and Silverman Chair for Radiology Education, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “Ultimately, we hope to change the way all children are imaged in the United States, using kid-size, not adult-sized radiation doses. It’s an ambitious goal, but one that we feel must be achieved.” Rye Radiology and their technologists continue to work together to lower radiation dose used for CT scans in their pediatric patients.