To Master the Console, Understand the Beam

If you want to become a radiologic technologist who operates with confidence and calm, you must first understand the world that exists inside the x-ray tube. Not just the buttons on the console, not merely the motions of positioning—but the invisible process that creates the very thing you work with every day: the x-ray beam.

Most students see physics as something distant, abstract, or overly technical. But physics is not distant. It is the foundation beneath...