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Job Description
Maintain and use equipment and supplies necessary to demonstrate portions of the human body on x-ray film or fluoroscopic screen for diagnostic purposes.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2099.06
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Radiologic Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Radiologic Technicians
- X-Ray Technician (X-Ray Tech)
- Registered Radiographer
- Radiology Technician (Radiology Tech)
- Radiologic Technician (RT)
- Limited Radiology Technician
- Chief Technician, X-Ray (Chief Tech, X-Ray)
- X Ray Operator
- Radiology Assistant
- Radiology Aide
- Radiological Technician
- Radiography Technician
- Medical Imaging Technician
- Electroneurodiagnostic Technician (ENDT)
- EKG Tech (Electrocardiographic Technician)
- EEG Technician (Electroencephalographic Technician)
- Computed Tomography Technician (CT Technician)
- Computed Tomography Scanner Operator
- Cat Scanner Operator
Tasks for “Mammography Technician”
- Prepare and set up x-ray room for patient.
- Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
- Operate mobile x-ray equipment in operating room, emergency room, or at patient's bedside.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as answering phones, scheduling patient appointments, or pulling and filing films.
- Coordinate work of other technicians or technologists when procedures require more than one person.
- Maintain a current file of examination protocols.
- Operate digital picture archiving communications systems.
- Collect and maintain records of patients examined, examinations performed, patient medical histories, views taken, or technical factors used.
- Assure that sterile or non-sterile supplies such as contrast materials, catheters, films, chemicals, or other required equipment, are present and in working order or requisition materials.
- Transport patients to or from exam rooms.
- Position x-ray equipment and adjust controls to set exposure factors, such as time and distance.
- Complete quality control activities, monitor equipment operation, and report malfunctioning equipment to supervisor.
- Make exposures necessary for the requested procedures, rejecting and repeating work that does not meet established standards.
- Provide assistance to physicians or other technologists in the performance of more complex procedures.
- Process exposed radiographs using film processors or computer generated methods.
- Provide assistance in radiopharmaceutical administration, monitoring patients' vital signs and notifying the radiologist of any relevant changes.
- Provide students or other technicians with suggestions of additional views, alternate positioning, or improved techniques to ensure the images produced are of the highest quality.
- Use beam-restrictive devices and patient-shielding techniques to minimize radiation exposure to patient and staff.
- Determine patients' x-ray needs by reading requests or instructions from physicians.
- Explain procedures to patients to reduce anxieties and obtain cooperation.
- Prepare contrast material, radiopharmaceuticals, or anesthetic or antispasmodic drugs under the direction of a radiologist.
- Assist with on-the-job training of new employees or students or provide input to supervisors regarding training performance.
- Perform procedures, such as linear tomography, mammography, sonograms, joint and cyst aspirations, routine contrast studies, routine fluoroscopy, or examinations of the head, trunk, or extremities under supervision of physician.
Related Technology & Tools
- Mobile image amplifier C-arms
- Portable x ray machines
- Grids
- Compression bands
- Film cassettes
- Picture archiving and communication systems PACS
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
- Tablet computers
- Cylinders
- Cushions
- Fluoroscopes
- Self-contained film processors
- Straps
- Positron emission tomography/computed tomography PET/CT scanners
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Portable densitometers
- X ray imaging charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- Stationary x ray equipment
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM imaging equipment
- Oxygen equipment
- Collimators
- X ray film processors
- Automatic x ray film processors
- X ray bone densitometers
- X ray calipers
- Personal computers
- Radiation measurement badges
- Desktop computers
- Lead shields/shielding equipment
- Patient immobilization devices
- Image intensifiers
- Tabletop film processors
- X ray filters
- Diaphragms
- Image capturing and transmission systems
- Portable film processors
- Magnetic tape recorders
- Computed tomography CT scanners
- X ray beam restriction devices
- X ray image intensifier television systems
- Image storage systems
- Cones
- Enema equipment
- Notebook computers
- Scan converters
- Sandbags
- Digital transmission densitometers
- Microsoft Excel
- Practice management software PMS
- Information systems integration software
- Microsoft Office
- Diagnostic image review software
- GE Healthcare ViewPoint Solutions
- Internet or intranet image distribution software
- Film processor tracking and management software
- Information management subsystem software
- MEDITECH software
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Virtual reality computed tomography CT imaging software
- Structured data entry software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM software/modality management software