Competency information
Details
Operate and perform routine quality assurance measurements safely on simple X-ray equipment for quality assurance (eg dental, mobile and general radiography), using a range of image detector technologies
Considerations
- Safe operation of equipment
- The implications of unsafe performance for staff and patients
- Awareness of different designs, eg table and wall buckies, mobile systems, chest radiography systems
- Different types of detector systems, theory of image capture and production
- Film screen systems, computed radiography and digital radiography Appropriate test protocols for different detector systems
- Principle of projection radiography
- Technology behind different test equipment
- Current national quality assurance (QA) guidance
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 3 | Outcome Perform measurements appropriate to safety testing, commissioning and periodic routine testing of a wide range of diagnostic systems |