Society of X-Ray Technology

The Society of X-Ray Technology was a British professional association for work with X-rays.

History
The Institute of X-Ray Engineers was formed in 1944 in Liverpool, soon after changing its name to the Society of X-Ray Technology.

In the mid-1980s it was one of 51 societies in the new Engineering Council, in group four.

Merger
In 1990 it joined the Institute of Hospital Engineers, which became the Institute of Hospital Engineering and Estate Management, which is now the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management.

Function
It published a journal, The Journal of X-ray Technology, twice a year and arranged lectures.

Structure
Those belonging to the organisation were physicists, radiographers, engineers and technicians.