title: Technique charts: the key to radiographic quality.
abstract: The radiologic technologist has three professional obligations: to provide consistent quality radiographs, to use minimum exposures necessary for these radiographs, and to reduce unnecessary costs by maintaining good techniques.  Through the development and routine use of standardized techniques, he can assure that the radiologist has radiographs of consistent quality to interpret, the patient receives minimum radiation exposure, and the administration maintains a non-wasteful budget in the radiology department.  The technique chart is the key to maintaining radiographic quality from which the rest flow.
mesh_terms: D011786:Quality Control; D011859:Radiography / Q000592:standards*; D013679:Technology, Radiologic / Q000592:standards*; D013781:Texas