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Maintain and use equipment and supplies necessary to demonstrate portions of the human body on x-ray film or fluoroscopic screen for diagnostic purposes.

Currently Employed: 378

Yearly Projected Openings: 20

Typical Hourly Wage: $16.40 - $26.79

Typical Annual Salary: $34,100 - $55,700

• Use beam-restrictive devices and patient-shielding techniques to minimize radiation exposure to patient and staff.
• Position x-ray equipment and adjust controls to set exposure factors, such as time and distance.
• Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
• Explain procedures to patients to reduce anxieties and obtain cooperation.
• Determine patients' x-ray needs by reading requests or instructions from physicians.
• Operate mobile x-ray equipment in operating room, emergency room, or at patient's bedside.
• Prepare and set up x-ray room for patient.
• 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.
• Process exposed radiographs using film processors or computer generated methods.
• Make exposures necessary for the requested procedures, rejecting and repeating work that does not meet established standards.

• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes
• Medical radiological positioning aids for general radiological use
• Medical x ray darkroom equipment or supplies
• Radiographic locators
• X ray bone densitometers

• Data base user interface and query software
• Information retrieval or search software
• Medical software