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If you are considering a career in diagnostic imaging, you could not have picked a better time. Imaging professionals are in great demand right now, and there seems to be no end in sight! Diagnostic imaging is a field with a wide range of possibilities—for students just out of high school or for someone who has decided to make a career change later in life. Diagnostic imaging professionals, also called "radiologic technologists," or "radiographers" specialize in the technologies that produce images of the body's internal organs. Those images may be obtained in any number of ways, through plain X-ray, CT (computed tomography) scan, MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan, nuclear medicine or interventional techniques, or ultrasound. Imaging professionals are trained, and usually subspecialty trained, to render those images to help physicians diagnose and treat illness. Their services are vitally important to the way medicine is conducted today. You can be trained to work as a diagnostic imaging professional in as little as two years although individuals who obtain a bachelor's degree tend to start at higher salaries and advance more quickly in their profession. On the other hand, with a two-year degree, an individual can begin working earlier and depend on their employer to provide tuition benefits to pay for additional education and training. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is one such employer, and offers generous tuition benefits to its employees. To learn more about a career in diagnostic imaging, contact: American Society of Radiologic TechnologistsOr, contact the following schools: PENNSYLVANIA*
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