What is Image Wisely and Image Gently?
Image Wisely aims to raise awareness and provide up-to-date educational resources for radiology professionals and referring clinicians regarding the safe use of adult medical imaging. The goals of Image Wisely are to provide information on: Safe practices in medical imaging.
Why is image gently important?
Clearly, diagnostic imaging is an important and necessary tool for certain medical care. Image Gently advocates methods to reduce the use of unnecessary ionizing radiation by sharing best practices of imaging protocols for children and using alternative imaging that avoids ionizing radiation.
What is image gently in CT?
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.
Why was Image Gently created?
The Image Gently campaign was launched in 2008 to raise awareness about methods to reduce radiation dose during pediatric medical imaging exams.
Who founded Image Gently?
In 2007, the SPR leadership reached out to friends and colleagues in sister societies representing the key members of the imaging team, ACR, ASRT and AAPM to form "the Writers Group." These organizations developed the concept of the Alliance, and their representatives developed the Image Gently® campaign in the summer ...
What is image wisely?
Image Wisely offers resources and information to radiologists, medical physicists, other imaging practitioners and patients, with the goal of encouraging physicians to optimize the amount of radiation used in medically necessary imaging studies, eliminate unnecessary procedures and ultimately increase patient safety.
Are children more radiosensitive?
It is now generally accepted that children are more sensitive to radiation than adults, specifically with higher relative risk of cancers including leukemia, brain, breast, skin, and thyroid cancers following exposures [4]. In part, this is because of the radiosensitivity of their developing organs and tissues [5,6].
Which modality has the initial focus of the Image Gently campaign?
The Image Gently campaign has created educational information for each ionising radiation modality (CT scan, fluoroscopy, radiography, nuclear medicine, interventional radiology and dental imaging), beginning with CT scans.
Why are children more sensitive to radiation?
For one thing, children are more sensitive to radiation than adults because their bodies are still growing. Children might also receive a higher radiation dose than necessary if equipment settings are not adjusted for their smaller body size.
What is the difference between stochastic and deterministic effect of radiation?
Deterministic effects are threshold health effects, that are related directly to the absorbed radiation dose and the severity of the effect increases as the dose increases. Stochastic effects occur by chance, generally occurring without a threshold level of dose.
What is the purpose of a images?
Often, images are used to create visual interest on content than being used as content itself. Effectively, they are treated as design elements. These can be icons, abstract graphics or photographs. Unlike content, design repeats.
Why is images important in multimedia?
Images and media are powerful communication devices. They are useful for conveying concepts and information, and they can help improve comprehension by reinforcing information provided in text. But images and media attract and engage our attention.
What is image gently?
The Image Gently website, www.imagegently.org, provides information about pediatric imaging examinations for radiologic technologists, medical physicists, radiologists, pediatricians and parents. For radiologic technologists, the site includes protocols for reducing pediatric radiation dose during computed tomography exams, as well as during interventional radiology exams. In the future, information about digital radiography, fluoroscopy, nuclear medicine procedures and other medical imaging exams will be added to the site.
Why is the image gently campaign important?
The Image Gently campaign was launched in 2008 to raise awareness about methods to reduce radiation dose during pediatric medical imaging exams.
What is the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging?
The campaign is an initiative of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, a coalition founded by the Society for Pediatric Radiology, the American Society of Radiologic Technologists, the American College of Radiology and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. The Alliance has now grown to more than 40 organizations.
When did the Image Gently Alliance start?
The Image Gently Alliance began as a committee within the Society for Pediatric Radiology in late 2006. In 2007, the SPR leadership reached out to friends and colleagues in sister societies representing the key members of the imaging team, ACR, ASRT and AAPM to form "the Writers Group.".
When did SPR start the image Gently campaign?
In 2007, the SPR leadership reached out to friends and colleagues in sister societies representing the key members of the imaging team, ACR, ASRT and AAPM to form "the Writers Group." These organizations developed the concept of the Alliance, and their representatives developed the Image Gently ® campaign in the summer of 2007.
Does Image Gently accept donations?
The Image Gently Alliance acknowledges all previous contributions with gratitude, but does not accept commercial financial donations at this time. However, we look forward to continued partnership in sharing insights and vision towards the safe imaging of children everywhere.
What is Image Wisely?
Image Wisely is a set of radiation safety principles formulated by the Joint Task Force on Adult Radiation Protection, which was formed by the American College of Radiology and the Radiological Society of North America using standards developed in collaboration with the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and the American Society of Radiologic Technologists..
What is Image Gently?
Like Image Wisely, we participate in a program called Image Gently designed to increase awareness that radiation doses may be lowered for children. We follow a set of guidelines specifying that we may image only when there is a clear medical benefit, using the lowest amount of radiation in the correct area of the body.
Patient Safety
We hope our focus on imaging safety alleviates any concerns you may have about radiation dosage during your exam. As always, you may speak with your physician or our technologists about any concerns you may have.
