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5 Recommendations to Achieve Excellence in Pediatric Medical Imaging

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Not only are children more radiosensitive than adults (the cancer risk per unit dose of ionizing radiation is higher), but children also have a longer expected lifetime, which puts them at greater risk of cancer following radiation exposure.(1) You might be wondering, “how do you keep up skills when you don’t have many pediatric patients?”