Imaging

Upper and middle lower images teaching children to be brave in taking xrays at doctor visits.

Lower left corner, coronal view of head CT scan.

To the right is a sagittal image of a CT scan of the brain.

Workforce Data

Job Flow and Essential Functions:

Prepare patients for radiologic procedures. Escort patients to dressing and x-ray rooms, provide verbal and/or written instructions and assist patients in positioning body parts to be radiographed. Explain procedures and observe patients to ensure patient care, safety and comfort during scan.

Pay

The median annual wage for magnetic resonance imaging technologists was $73,410 in May 2019. The median annual wage for radiologic technologists was $60,510 in May 2019.

Hiring Trends

May very every few years. Generally, when students get out of x-ray school, companies are hiring and training new grads, but every few years the market can get flooded .

Job Outlook

Overall employment of radiologic and MRI technologists is projected to grow 9 percent from 2018 to 2028, faster than the average for all occupations. As the population grows older, there will be an increase in medical conditions that require imaging as a tool for making diagnoses. However, I will add that current nanotechnology, requires less radiologist physicians to actually read the images that the technologist acquire, because the computer does the reading for them and all one doctor has to do is sign off on it. For example the computer will say that it did not find any abnormalities in the Mammography images.

Some images are not diagnostic, meaning they do not need a doctor's diagnosis, such as an Ultra Sound of a baby. So many Ultrasound technologist are opening their own 3D Ultrasound business for families that want to see how their baby will look when they get here.