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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)
- Radiology Assistant
- Radiology Aide
- Radiological Technician
- Radiography Technician
- Medical Imaging 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 “X Ray Operator”
- Coordinate work of other technicians or technologists when procedures require more than one person.
- Explain procedures to patients to reduce anxieties and obtain cooperation.
- Provide assistance in radiopharmaceutical administration, monitoring patients' vital signs and notifying the radiologist of any relevant changes.
- Process exposed radiographs using film processors or computer generated methods.
- 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.
- 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.
- Determine patients' x-ray needs by reading requests or instructions from physicians.
- Use beam-restrictive devices and patient-shielding techniques to minimize radiation exposure to patient and staff.
- Transport patients to or from exam rooms.
- Prepare and set up x-ray room for patient.
- Perform general administrative tasks, such as answering phones, scheduling patient appointments, or pulling and filing films.
- Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
- Prepare contrast material, radiopharmaceuticals, or anesthetic or antispasmodic drugs under the direction of a radiologist.
- Operate digital picture archiving communications systems.
- Make exposures necessary for the requested procedures, rejecting and repeating work that does not meet established standards.
- Maintain a current file of examination protocols.
- Provide assistance to physicians or other technologists in the performance of more complex procedures.
- Complete quality control activities, monitor equipment operation, and report malfunctioning equipment to supervisor.
- Assist with on-the-job training of new employees or students or provide input to supervisors regarding training performance.
- Operate mobile x-ray equipment in operating room, emergency room, or at patient's bedside.
- Position x-ray equipment and adjust controls to set exposure factors, such as time and distance.
- 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
- Diaphragms
- Portable densitometers
- Mobile image amplifier C-arms
- Sandbags
- Self-contained film processors
- Image storage systems
- Notebook computers
- X ray image intensifier television systems
- Film cassettes
- Computed tomography CT scanners
- Collimators
- Cushions
- X ray imaging charge-coupled device CCD cameras
- X ray calipers
- X ray beam restriction devices
- Picture archiving and communication systems PACS
- X ray film processors
- High-speed multislice computed tomography CT scanners
- Portable film processors
- Personal computers
- Tablet computers
- Lead shields/shielding equipment
- Portable x ray machines
- Grids
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM imaging equipment
- Magnetic tape recorders
- X ray bone densitometers
- Desktop computers
- Image intensifiers
- Oxygen equipment
- Image capturing and transmission systems
- Positron emission tomography/computed tomography PET/CT scanners
- Patient immobilization devices
- Radiation measurement badges
- Straps
- Tabletop film processors
- Automatic x ray film processors
- Cones
- Fluoroscopes
- X ray filters
- Compression bands
- Stationary x ray equipment
- Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI equipment
- Cylinders
- Digital transmission densitometers
- Enema equipment
- Scan converters
- GE Healthcare ViewPoint Solutions
- Information systems integration software
- Structured data entry software
- Internet or intranet image distribution software
- Film processor tracking and management software
- Microsoft Office
- GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
- Electronic medical record EMR software
- Diagnostic image review software
- Microsoft Excel
- Virtual reality computed tomography CT imaging software
- Practice management software PMS
- Digital Imaging Communications in Medicine DICOM software/modality management software
- MEDITECH software
- Information management subsystem software