Celebrate our medical radiation technologists November 4 to 10!

November 4 – 10 is Medical Radiation Technology (MRT) Week! Celebrate the work your MRT colleagues do in

The very image of care: MRTs play a unique and vital role in medical imaging and radiation therapy treatment for patients.

diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy.Medical Radiation Technology (MRT) Week is celebrated the second week in November because on the 8th of that month in 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen produced and detected X-rays for the first time.

MRTs perform diagnostic imaging examinations and administer radiation therapy treatments. They can be found in emergency departments, operating rooms, mobile breast screening vans, as well as diagnostic imaging departments (including nuclear medicine and MRI) and cancer clinics treating patients with radiotherapy.

Wilhelm Conrad Röentgen first produced and detected X-rays on November 8, 1895.

Technologists also work in interventional radiology, assisting with procedures that use imaging to guide catheters, balloons, stents and other tools through the body to diagnose and treat disease without open surgery. MRTs are also patient advocates, educators, researchers, technical specialists and interdisciplinary consultants.

MRT week is a chance for both celebration and recognition of the unique and vital role that MRTS play in medical imaging and radiation therapy treatment, and providing hands-on patient care, with confidence, expertise, precision, and professionalism. Be part of the celebration!