The Alliance

The Image Gently Alliance is a coalition of healthcare 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.  The ultimate goal of the Alliance is to change practice until imaging doses are optimized at the point of care.  

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." These organizations developed the concept of the Alliance and their representatives developed the campaign in the summer of 2007. Click to view The Image Gently Alliance Strategic Plan. The organization has developed a transformative group of campaigns to address modality-based digital radiography, fluoroscopy, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, service-based computed tomography, dental imaging, cardiac imaging, and indication-based imaging in the setting of minor head trauma. Additional information about the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound (US) as alternatives to the use of radiation is available on this website. The Alliance is leading ImageIntelliGently, an effort to ensure that Artificial Intelligence (AI) in radiology is used in a safe, reliable, and effective manner in children.

Click below to view the Current Annual Report presented at the RSNA Annual Meeting of the Image Gently Alliance.

Image Gently, the first in a now world-wide network of campaign partners, has become a recognized and respected presence both nationally and internationally.

Founding Organizations:

• The Society for Pediatric Radiology
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine
• American College of Radiology
• American Society of Radiologic Technologists

Alliance Organizations and Year Joined:

The Image Gently Campaign and the Image Gently Alliance rely on the generous donations of resources from the founding organizations (Society for Pediatric Radiology, American College of Radiology,  American Society for Radiologic Technologists, and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine), all Alliance Organizations, supporters and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The leadership gratefully acknowledges the time, talent and expertise during the growth of the Alliance from representatives of GE HealthCare, Phillips HealthCare, Canon Medical Systems and Siemens Medical Systems who are committed to improving healthcare for children through activities related to this campaign. 

The Alliance is grateful for the unrestricted educational grant from GE Healthcare made in 2007.  The campaign does not accept corporate financial donations at this time.

Although great care has been taken to maintain the accuracy of Information contained in this website and its posted publications, neither the Alliance nor the Alliance organizations assume any responsibility for consequences which may arise from their use. November, 2024