Radiology Tech Jobs

Imaging that travels to the patient. Mobile companies send radiologic technologists to nursing homes, prisons and private homes with a portable unit in a van, often on evening and overnight shifts. You work alone, position people in beds and chairs instead of against a wall stand, and get a diagnostic image out of a room that was designed for something else entirely.

You run the C-arm. Orthopedic, vascular and pain cases need live fluoroscopy, so you're in the room moving a unit around a sterile field on the surgeon's instruction and holding an image while they work. Hospitals often treat surgical imaging as its own rotation, because it's a different skill from a radiography suite.

You think about it constantly, and for 2 people at once. You collimate to the area being imaged, shield what doesn't need exposing, and set technique that gets a diagnostic image the first time, since every repeat is another dose. For yourself it's distance, lead and a monitoring badge that gets read on a schedule, and departments track those readings.