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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
- Mammography 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 “Medical Imaging Technician”
- Transport patients to or from exam rooms.
- Maintain a current file of examination protocols.
- Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
- Process exposed radiographs using film processors or computer generated methods.
- Operate digital picture archiving communications systems.
- 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.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as answering phones, scheduling patient appointments, or pulling and filing films.
- 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.
- Operate mobile x-ray equipment in operating room, emergency room, or at patient's bedside.
- 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.
- Provide assistance to physicians or other technologists in the performance of more complex procedures.
- 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.
- Provide assistance in radiopharmaceutical administration, monitoring patients' vital signs and notifying the radiologist of any relevant changes.
- Prepare and set up x-ray room for patient.
- Coordinate work of other technicians or technologists when procedures require more than one person.
- Assist with on-the-job training of new employees or students or provide input to supervisors regarding training performance.
- Position x-ray equipment and adjust controls to set exposure factors, such as time and distance.
- Collect and maintain records of patients examined, examinations performed, patient medical histories, views taken, or technical factors used.
- Use beam-restrictive devices and patient-shielding techniques to minimize radiation exposure to patient and staff.
- 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
- Radiation measurement badges
- Computed tomography CT scanners
- Tabletop film processors
- Cones
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
- Notebook computers
- X ray calipers
- Positron emission tomography/computed tomography PET/CT scanners
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM imaging equipment
- Personal computers
- Scan converters
- Mobile image amplifier C-arms
- Fluoroscopes
- Image intensifiers
- Image capturing and transmission systems
- Collimators
- Cushions
- Tablet computers
- Oxygen equipment
- Desktop computers
- Image storage systems
- Grids
- X ray film processors
- X ray filters
- Film cassettes
- Cylinders
- Picture archiving and communication systems PACS
- Patient immobilization devices
- X ray bone densitometers
- X ray imaging charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- Sandbags
- Portable x ray machines
- Straps
- Lead shields/shielding equipment
- Magnetic tape recorders
- Digital transmission densitometers
- Self-contained film processors
- Stationary x ray equipment
- Diaphragms
- Automatic x ray film processors
- Compression bands
- Enema equipment
- Portable film processors
- X ray beam restriction devices
- Portable densitometers
- X ray image intensifier television systems
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM software/modality management software
- Information systems integration software
- Structured data entry software
- Practice management software PMS
- Information management subsystem software
- MEDITECH software
- Film processor tracking and management software
- Virtual reality computed tomography CT imaging software
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Excel
- Internet or intranet image distribution software
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Diagnostic image review software
- GE Healthcare ViewPoint Solutions