Technicians need to be prepared for photo instrumentation who can maintain the critical tolerances required of both electronic and photographic instruments. The practitioner must also possess a solid background in quality control and densitometry, and a knowledge of optics, photographic chemistry, and the physics of the photographic process.…

Hospitals need technicians to maintain increasingly complex health care systems. Filling a need first addressed by the military, the education of Biomedical Equipment Technicians is now a growing civilian field. (Author)