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