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Career Path Options & Employment

You can choose between either diagnostic or therapeutic radiography. You can enter the radiography team as an assistant practitioner, also known as a radiography assistant, and work your way up from there.

Diagnostic radiography is a profession that is continually changing and rapidly developing. This means there are long-term career options such as management, research, clinical work and teaching. While still working within the diagnostic field, you may choose to specialise in techniques such as computerised tomography (CT or CAT) scanning, or magnetic resonance imaging. These produce cross-sectional images of the body using magnetic field and radio frequency waves.

With experience, there is the opportunity to continue into the field of a sonographer or ultrasonographer specialist. In this job, you operate ultrasound machines and similar equipment, producing images for diagnostic purposes. You can also become a radiography team leader or consultant.