| Biomedical equipment technicians or BMETs represent | | | | imaging equipment. As institutions like hospitals see |
| an expanding division of people who are technically | | | | that downtime on an important piece of imaging |
| trained whose main responsibility is the maintenance | | | | equipment affects income production, there is |
| and repair of medical imaging equipment like a CT | | | | pressure to add BMETs to hospital staff to assure |
| scanner, ultrasound, x-ray MRI, and so on. The job | | | | that every piece of imaging equipment is maintained |
| path for BMETs seems to be improving as rapidly as | | | | in good condition so that expensive service contracts |
| newimaging equipment is coming out. | | | | are used as little as possible. The U.S. Department of |
| First and foremost, the demand for BMETs is | | | | Labor and the Association for the Advancement of |
| expanding. The increase is due to the expansion in | | | | Medical Imaging (AAMI) suggest that the number of |
| new equipment used for medical imaging and | | | | jobs available as a BMET in the US will rise 24 percent |
| technologies that require BMET expertise, and, by the | | | | to 31 percent until the year 2010. |
| necessity for income by institutions that own medical | | | | |