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.