The Diploma of Diagnostic Radiography prepare the student for professional practice as a Diagnostic Radiographer or the Radiologic Technologist. This is the health care professional who operate special scanning machines that make images for medical purposes. Diagnostic Radiographers take images inside patients’ bodies to help understand and diagnose illness and injury. The students of this course will also be trained to interpret plain radiographs and give intravenous injections where applicable.
Diagnostic Radiographers use the latest technology including Conventional Radiography, Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Radionuclide medicine (RNI) and Ultrasound (US) to examine the body and facilitate the effective and timely diagnosis of various medical conditions.