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The Image Gently(tm) campaign has developed easily accessible online teaching materials and checklists to help interventional radiology providers use the lowest dose necessary to perform interventional procedures on children. Interventional physicians, medical physicists, and radiologic technologists are encouraged to visit the Image Gently Web site (http://www.imagegently.org) to review these important materials and factor the information into their clinical decision making.
There is no doubt that interventional radiology procedures improve and save lives. However, children are more sensitive to radiation received from imaging scans than adults, and cumulative radiation exposure to their smaller, developing bodies could, over time, have adverse effects. When interventional procedures are the correct treatment for disease or injury, providers are, where appropriate, urged...
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