PET/CT Technologist

What these technologists image

Oncology, cardiac and neurologic patients undergoing positron emission tomography with CT.

What the shift actually looks like

Oncology-heavy scanning with tight uptake timing, dose management and long acquisitions. Scheduling precision drives everything.

Credentials and certifications

Typically required

ARRT (N)(CT) or NMTCB (PET); state license

Workload basis

Volume-based

What to specify when you send the req

Scanner platform, daily volume, and whether the technologist also covers general nuclear medicine.

Why this role is hard to fill

Dual-credentialed PET/CT technologists are scarce and command a premium over general nuclear medicine.

What candidates ask before accepting

Answering these in the req itself shortens the process considerably, because they are the questions that otherwise surface at offer stage and cause declines: Scanner platform, daily volume, whether they also cover general nuclear medicine, and dose delivery logistics.

Contract or permanent?

Contract restores scanner uptime immediately; permanent fixes the structural gap. Many facilities deliberately run both, so a traveller holds the schedule while a permanent search proceeds without pressure. Contract-to-hire works particularly well here because modality competence is obvious within weeks on your own equipment.

Licensure

Imaging licensure is state-by-state with no portability. Roughly eleven states do not license individual technologists at all, regulating instead at facility or equipment-operator level — where that applies, verification of registry status and continuing competency falls to you rather than a state board. ARRT is the primary registry across modalities.

How we work this req

Every candidate is spoken to before you see them, with licensure for your state, certifications and unit-specific competency confirmed before submittal. We screen to the credential the unit actually needs rather than the title on the posting. Rates sit inside the ranges on our published cost breakdown.