2022 Volume 38 Issue 1 Pages 21-28
Children are more susceptible to radiation exposure and have a longer life time than adults, making it necessary to avoid imaging examinations with radiation exposure as much as possible. If necessary, they should be performed with the minimum radiation dose while ensuring sufficient image quality required for diagnosis. It is the goal of the members of the Japan Pediatric Radiology Society to perform appropriate diagnostic imaging with high medical information value as gently as possible for all children. In this paper, the practical idea of justification for and optimization of pediatric diagnostic imaging are reviewed, and safety issues of pediatric sedation are discussed because sedation cannot be avoided in young children and intellectually impaired ones. In addition, MRI preparation videos are introduced, which are for Japanese children aiming to increase the number of them who can undergo noisy MRI examination without sedation.
