Nuclear Medicine Technologists

Tools and Technology

Tools Include:

• Electronic blood pressure units (Automated blood pressure cuffs)
• Automated external defibrillators AED or hard paddles (Automated external defibrillators AED)
• Liquid scintillation counters (Automated multisample liquid scintillation counters)
• Medical imaging wet darkroom or daylight processors (Automatic film developing equipment)
• Medical radiological shielding portable containers for radioactive materials (Beta vial shields)
• Blood collection syringes (Blood drawing syringes)
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes (Computed tomography CT scanners)
• Desktop computers
• Radiation detectors (Digital ratemeters)
• Medical radiation dosimeters (Dose calibrators)
• Spectrometers (Dual channel spectrometer systems)
• Medical gamma cameras for general use (Dual headed gamma cameras)
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Vacuum blood collection tubes or containers (Evacuated blood collection tubes)
• Medical radiation dosimeters (Finger film badges)
• Gamma counters (Gamma scintillation counters)
• Radiation detectors (Geiger-Mueller meters)
• Intravenous infusion pumps for general use (Infusion pumps)
• Hypodermic needles (Intramuscular hypodermic needles)
• Intravenous tubing with catheter administration kits (Intravenous IV sets)
• Radiation detectors (Ion chamber survey meters)
• Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
• Medical gamma cameras for general use (Large-field gamma cameras)
• Medical linear accelerator intensity modulated radiation therapy IMRT collimators (Linear accelerator collimator equipment)
• Medical gamma cameras for general use (Medical gamma cameras)
• Medical imaging dry laser printers or imagers (Medical image laser printers)
• Medical picture archiving computer systems PACS
• Medical positron emission tomography PET units (Medical positron emission tomography PET scanners)
• Medical single photon emission computed tomography SPECT units (Medical single photo emission computed tomography SPECT equipment)
• Laboratory tongs (Metal laboratory tongs)
• Microcentrifuges (Microhematocrit centrifuges)
• Medical gamma cameras for general use (Mobile gamma cameras)
• Flow sensors or regulators or components (Oxygen delivery regulators)
• Medical radiological positioning aids for general radiological use (Patient positioning blocks)
• Peripheral intravenous catheters for general use (Peripheral intravenous catheters)
• Personal computers
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT quality assurance or calibration phantoms or devices (Positron emission tomography PET calibration phantoms)
• Pulse oximeter units (Pulse oximeters)
• Phantom dosimeters (Radiation measurement phantoms)
• Medical radiation films or badges (Radiation monitoring film badges)
• Eye shields (Radiation protection eyewear)
• Medical radiological shielding gloves (Radiation shielding gloves)
• Medical radiological shielding aprons or masks or drapes (Radiation shielding lead aprons)
• Medical radiological shielding aprons or masks or drapes (Radiation shielding lead vests)
• Radiation detectors (Radiation survey meters)
• Radiation detectors (Radiation uptake detectors)
• Medical gamma cameras for general use (Rotating gamma cameras)
• Goggles (Safety goggles)
• Scintillation crystal assemblies (Scintillation crystal detectors)
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT quality assurance or calibration phantoms or devices (Single positron emission computed tomography SPECT calibration phantoms)
• Specimen collectors (Specimen collection containers)
• Spectrometers
• Chart recorders (Strip chart recorders)
• Hypodermic needles (Subcutaneous hypodermic needles)
• Medical staff isolation or surgical masks (Surgical masks)
• Medical radiological shielding portable containers for radioactive materials (Syringe shields)
• Radiation detectors (Thermoluminescent dosimeters)
• Medical gamma cameras for general use (Triple-head gamma cameras)
• Medical ultrasound bone densitometers (Ultrasound bone density scanners)
• Liquid scintillation counters (Well counters)
• Radiation detectors (Wipe test counters)

Technologies Include:

• Electronic mail software

• Microsoft Outlook

• Medical software

• Electronic medical record EMR software
• Gamma camera software
• Medovation RadRunner
• Radiopharmacy inventory databases

• Office suite software

• Microsoft Office software

• Spreadsheet software

• Microsoft Excel

• Word processing software

• Microsoft Word

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)