Disciplines & Professions: Radiology

Web Sites

American College of Radiology
http://www.acr.org

Web site for the leading national U.S. society for radiology.

Yahoo!'s Radiology Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Medicine/Radiology/

This site has a list of annotated direct links; a directory of links organized by subject heading, in addition to other services, such as Yahoo! Health; a page that provides health research, expert advice, and healthy recipes; and chat/discussion boards for interactive discussion.

Databases

EMBASE: Radiology & Nuclear Medicine (Elsevier, available through SilverPlatter)

Contains more than 450,000 records covered on a rolling ten-year basis. Includes bibliographic information on issues such as radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy, radiobiology, ultrasound diagnosis, thermography, and adverse reactions to radiotherapy.

RSNA Index to Imaging Literature (Radiological Society of North America.)

This database has replaced the print version of the Index to Imaging Literature. It indexes over 40 journals covering radiology and related topics.

Print Resources

Daffner, Richard H. Clinical Radiology: The Essentials. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1999.

Written for students in medical and health programs. Chapters are organized topically and provide advanced information about radiology and imaging.

Erkonen, William E., and Wilbur L. Smith, eds. Radiology 101: The Basics and Fundamentals of Imaging. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 1998.

Chapters provide an overview of introductory radiology topics. The first section covers basic principles; the second section covers diagnostics for specific parts of the body.

Index to Imaging Literature. Chicago: Radiological Society of North America, 1987-.

Indexes 40 journals covering radiology and related topics. The first part is organized alphabetically by author's last name; the second part is organized alphabetically by subject.

Iturralde, Mario P. Dictionary and Handbook of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Imaging. Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 1990.

The first half of this book is a dictionary of terms organized alphabetically. The second half is a “data handbook” of information useful to more specialized readers. An index is included.

Novelline, Robert A. Squire's Fundamentals of Radiology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997.

Text provides an overview of concepts and principles covered in an introductory radiology course. Chapters are organized topically. Provides a subject index.