2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Dec 27, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

RAD 125 - Radiographic Technique I


Description: Essential knowledge about the role of a radiologic technologist in image production. Fundamentals of atomic structure, terminology, and the key factors that influence the image production process.

Prerequisites: Admission to the Radiologic Technology program. Reading Proficiency

Corequisite: RAD 100 RAD 111 , RAD 111L RAD 170 , and RAD 175 .

Credits: 2
Lecture: 2
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Exposure factors
  2. Image acquisition
  3. Image acquisition errors
  4. Computer processing
  5. Image display

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Explain exposure factors and their effect on the final image. (1)
  2. Describe the image acquisition process. (2)
  3. Describe associate image acquisition errors. (3)
  4. Discuss computer processing, pre- and post-processing. (4)
  5. Summarize the image display process. (5)