The Image Gently Campaign, an initiative of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, has highlighted the need to tailor diagnostic imaging procedures to children so as to reduce their radiation exposure and potential cancer risk (http://www.imagegently.org, accessed May 2015).
The Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics (PING Data Repositoryy.
"I have started to compile a list of obvious problems with respect to pediatric images, especially in the neonatal population," he said in a July 26 e-mail to Dr. Sclafani.
Methods: A neuroanatomical-based age prediction model was trained using a supervised machine learning technique with T1 MRI scans from 953 typically developing healthy controls (HC) from the Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition, and Genetics study (PING) study.
We then replicate our results in the Pediatric Imaging Neurocognition Genetics (PING) study using oral reading and receptive vocabulary measures.
We replicated association of ZNF385D using receptive vocabulary measures in the Pediatric Imaging Neurocognitive Genetics study (P = 0.00245).
An important development in the attempt to reduce unnecessary exposure of children to IR was the recent establishment of the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging.
"There's a national focus on this issue right now," says Marilyn Goske, a professor of radiology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and chairwoman of the Image Gently campaign, a pediatric education and awareness campaign from the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging.
http://pingstudy.ucsd.edu/ Pediatric Imaging, Neurocognition and Genetics (PING) Study: A multisite project that has collected "neurodevelopmental histories, information about mental and emotional functions, multimodal brain imaging data and genotypes for well over 1000 children and adolescents between the ages 3 and 20" [ 7].
This can provide a means to evaluate and improve pediatric imaging devices and to optimize CT protocols in terms of image quality and radiation dose.
