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Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
Take x-rays and CAT scans or administer nonradioactive materials into patient's bloodstream for diagnostic or research purposes. Includes radiologic technologists and technicians who specialize in other scanning modalities.
- US jobs
- 230,490
- Median wage
- $80,110 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of radiologic technologists and technicians?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Explain procedures and observe patients to ensure safety and comfort during scan.
- Process exposed radiographs using film processors or computer generated methods.
- Perform procedures, such as linear tomography, mammography, sonograms, joint and cyst aspirations, routine contrast studies, routine fluoroscopy, or examinations of the head, trunk, or extremities under supervision of physician.
- Record, process, and maintain patient data or treatment records and prepare reports.
- Prepare contrast material, radiopharmaceuticals, or anesthetic or antispasmodic drugs under the direction of a radiologist.
- Complete quality control activities, monitor equipment operation, and report malfunctioning equipment to supervisor.
- Position patient on examining table and set up and adjust equipment to obtain optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
- Review and evaluate developed x-rays, video tape, or computer-generated information to determine if images are satisfactory for diagnostic purposes.
- Determine patients' x-ray needs by reading requests or instructions from physicians.
- Use radiation safety measures and protection devices to comply with government regulations and to ensure safety of patients and staff.
- Position imaging equipment and adjust controls to set exposure time and distance, according to specification of examination.
- Operate digital picture archiving communications systems.
Other job titles for this occupation (46)
CT Tech (Computed Tomography Technologist) · Mammographer · Multimodality Technologist · Radiographer · Radiologic Technician (RAD Tech) · Radiology Technician (Radiology Tech) · Registered Radiologic Technologist (RT (R)) · RT (Radiologic Technologist) · X-Ray Tech (X-Ray Technician) · X-Ray Tech (X-Ray Technologist) · 3D Technologist (Three Dimensional Technologist) · Angiogram Special Procedures Technologist · CAT Technologist (Computed Axial Tomography Technologist) · CT Radiology Technologist (Computerized Tomography Radiology Technologist) · CT RT (Computed Tomography Radiologic Technologist) · CT Scan Special Procedures Technologist (Computed Tomography Scan Special Procedures Technologist) · CT Scan Technologist (Computed Tomography Scan Technologist) · CT Scanner Operator (Computed Tomography Scanner Operator) · CT Tech (Computed Tomography Technician) · Document Imaging Technician (Document Imaging Tech) · DRT (Diagnostic Radiologic Technologist) · Imaging Specialist · Imaging Technician (Imaging Tech) · Interventional Radiologic Technologist · Interventional Radiology Tech (Interventional Radiology Technician) · Interventional Technician (Interventional Tech) · Limited Radiology Technician (Limited Radiology Tech) · Mammography Technician (Mammography Tech) · Mammography Technologist (Mammography Tech) · Medical Imaging Technician (Medical Imaging Tech) · Radiation Technician (Radiation Tech) · Radiographer Technologist · Radiography Technician (Radiography Tech) · Radiological Technician (Radiological Tech) · Radiological Technologist · Radiology CT Technologist (Radiology Computed Tomography Technologist) · Radiology Specialist · Registered Radiographer · RT (Radiology Technologist) · Skiagrapher · Travel Interventional Radiology Technologist · Travel Mammographer Technician (Travel Mammographer Tech) · Travel Radiology Tech (Travel Radiology Technician) · Travel Technician (Travel Tech) · Travel X-Ray Tech (Travel X-Ray Technician) · X-Ray Operator