Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that uses unique, safe,
and painless techniques both to image the body and treat
disease. Entry-level positions in nuclear medical technology
range from $40,000 - $45,000. Career opportunities in nuclear
medical technology include not only clinical nuclear medicine
technologists, but also as educators, research assistants,
health physicists, hospital radiation safety officers, state
inspectors, physicians, and sales representatives for nuclear
instrumentation and radiopharmaceutical companies. Employment
opportunities exist in medical centers; veterans and armed
forces medical centers or hospitals; public health institutions;
industrial, chemical, and biochemical research laboratories; and
atomic power or nuclear instrumentation manufacturing companies.
A nuclear medicine technologist (NMT) has direct patient contact
when performing the nuclear medicine procedures and uses a
variety of radiation equipment and computers to acquire data.
Other responsibilities of an NMT i