We present the first fully quantum mechanical calculation of photon radiation accompanying charged particle decay from a barrier resonance. The softphoton limit agrees with the classical results, but differences appear at nextto-leading-order. Under the conditions of α-decay of heavy nuclei, the main contribution to the photon emission stems from Coulomb acceleration and may be computed analytically. We find only a small contribution from the tunneling wave function under the barrier.Typeset using REVT E X 1