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A Radiographer
I bet you know who a doctor is or a medical laboratory scientist,but probably never heard of a "radiographer"
A radiographer is a health professional trained to dispense radiation for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment. Even though about 50% of...
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I bet you know who a doctor is or a medical laboratory scientist,but probably never heard of a "radiographer"
A radiographer is a health professional trained to dispense radiation for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment. Even though about 50% of...
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..patients through the radiology department for one investigation or the other the conclusion is that most of these patients assume this professionals to be "doctors" one can forgive their assumption given the sophistication and thrilling nature of how the imaging modalities...
and treatment machines are.
So what do radiographers do?
A radiographer is either in diagnostic or in therapy. So the job specification varies.
a diagnostic radiographer may work with either of this or combined imaging modalities:
Computed tomography
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A CT machine
So what do radiographers do?
A radiographer is either in diagnostic or in therapy. So the job specification varies.
a diagnostic radiographer may work with either of this or combined imaging modalities:
Computed tomography.....
A CT machine
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)Conventional radiography(xray)ultrasonographyNuclear Medicine(further divided in to SPECT/PET)Whilst a therapy Radiographer works with
External beam radiotherapy EBRT (consisting of 
Linear accelerator(LINAC)Cobalt-60
Brachytherapyradiotherapy modalities LINAC in UDUTh and LUTH
A brachytherapy modality
A conventional radiography modality
An ultrasound Imaging modality
in my next thread i would be talking about the images and how to get acquainted to them.
