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The year , was a huge year as Thomas Edison also invented the first commercial fluoroscope. Many new discoveries happened throughout the history of radiology, but none were more significant than these first discoveries.
About 14 years later, Egas Moniz developed cerebral angiography and another six years later Fredric and Irene Joliot-Curie were able to produce radioisotopes artificially. In addition, Sven-Ivar Seldinger developed a technique The s were also the decade when Ian Donald invented ultrasound.
However, many of the techniques used in radiology today have been around for less than years. To learn more about radiologists, take a look at our recent article on A Day in the Life of a Radiologist.
Phone: Email: [email protected]. Facebook Twitter Linkedin. The First Radiographs Originally, radiographs were made onto glass photographic plates. In the years following its passage, increasing numbers of states began licensing radiologic technologists. By , 33 states had enacted licensure laws for radiographers, 28 licensed radiation therapists and 21 licensed nuclear medicine technologists.
While ASRT was working for regulatory standards on the governmental level, it also was introducing the profession to the concept of continuing education. In , the ASRT designed a voluntary continuing education program in which technologists could earn CE points by participating in professional meetings, in-service education and self-study programs.
Although voluntary, response to the CE program was strong. Within a year of its launch, more than 5, radiologic technologists had enrolled — a testament to their eagerness for continuing education. By the early s, the ASRT was focused on ensuring long-term financial stability for the organization while expanding its range of benefits and services to members. To do so, the organization recognized that it needed to leave Chicago. The ASRT's downtown Chicago office was the organization's single largest expense, leaving no money for investments or for future expansion of the Society.
Estimating that the Society would be able to operate for nearly half the cost as in Chicago, it opened its office in Albuquerque in August She claimed that the main danger of radiation overexposure came from faulty machinery, not from equipment operators who had never been educated as radiologic technologists.
The Department of Health and Human Services also said it would not issue a model licensure bill to the states, as required by the Act.
Under pressure from the public, HHS backed down and agreed to comply with the Act. In December , the federal agency mailed copies of a model licensure bill to the governors of all 50 states. Meanwhile, ASRT membership continued to rise, with a growing number of members practicing in fields other than radiography.
To better represent all its members, the ASRT in created a new legislative and governing body, the House of Delegates. The country was divided into 10 regions and the ASRT membership was divided into four modalities: radiography, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and sonography.
Each region sent one delegate representing each modality to the annual meeting of the House. This system ensured that every modality and every region had equal representation on issues affecting the radiologic sciences. The House also included two affiliate delegates elected from each state and city affiliate. The organization's 20, members were asked to enroll in one of 11 chapters — cardiovascular-interventional technology, computed tomography, medical dosimetry, education, magnetic resonance, mammography, management, nuclear medicine technology, radiation therapy, radiography or sonography.
Each chapter was represented in the House by a delegate from each of the ASRT's 10 regions, replacing each region's four modality delegates. A military chapter was added in , and chapters for bone densitometry and quality management were added in The system of representation in the House of Delegates was further refined in , when delegates voted to restructure ASRT's system of governance.
Among the changes was the elimination of the region system for election of chapter delegates, allowing chapter delegates to be elected nationally instead of regionally. In , the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists ARRT made continuing education mandatory as a condition for the annual renewal of technologists' certifications.
Although the society had offered educational materials through its annual meeting and journals since its inception in , the CE mandate put the Society under additional pressure to help R. It responded by becoming one of the few organizations approved by the ARRT to perform all four CE responsibilities: developing, sponsoring and evaluating CE activities and recording technologists' accumulated CE credits.
As more and more technologists recognized the benefits of belonging to ASRT, membership soared. It climbed from 28, in to 56, in and 70, in One of the efforts that benefited from ASRT's increasing size and strength was the battle for federal minimum standards. The ASRT formed a Government Relations Department, launched an exhaustive grass-roots lobbying effort and built a coalition with other radiologic science organizations to gain support for the issue on Capitol Hill.
Rick Lazio, R-N. Heather Wilson, R-N. Chip Pickering, R-Miss. Mike Doyle, D-Pa. John Barrow, D-Ga. Ed Whitfield, R-Ky. The bill also was introduced in the Senate in , , , , and by Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyo. It passed the Senate unanimously in December , but the House adjourned before it could take action on the bill.
When it was reintroduced in both houses of Congress during , the bill had a slightly different name. In , the ASRT shifted its effort to establish educational and certification standards from the federal level to the state level. As the ASRT grew, it placed increasing emphasis on integrating the principles of quality management into all phases of its operations.
The Society launched an extensive quality improvement effort in , committing itself to planning, controlling and measuring each of its processes and products. The award program criteria evaluate leadership, strategic planning, customer service, information and analysis, human resources, process management and business results.
Department of Commerce. As the ASRT grew, it continued to develop innovative ways to meet the needs of its diverse membership. The ASRT surpassed the ,member mark in Yet its mission remains the same today as when Ed Jerman founded the society in — to give radiologic technologists the knowledge, resources and support they need to provide quality patient care.
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