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. 2013 Nov 4;14(6):368–387. doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v14i6.4476

Table 1.

List of relevant online educational sites based on the initial work of AAPM TG 115. Each of the hyperlinks is categorized by the educational content they contain

Professional Societies and Organizations
Educational Categories
Intended Audience Author Hyperlink Physics/Radiologic Physics Anatomy & Physiology Health Physics Radiation Biology Diagnostic Imaging Nuclear Medicine Radiation Therapy Misc.
Physicist American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) http://www.aapm.org X X X X X
AAPM Medical Physics Resource Page http://www.aapm.Org/links/medphys/default.asp#lists X X X X X
Physicist, Physician American Board of Radiology (ABR) http://theabr.org X
ABR Foundation http://www.abrfoundation.org X X
Physicist, Physician American College of Radiology (ACR) http://www.acr.org X X X X
ACR Care in Point http://3s.acr.org/cip/ X X
Physicist, Technologist Association of Educators in Imaging and Radiological Sciences (AEIRS) http://www.aeirs.org X
Physicist American Institute of Physics (AIP) http://www.aip.org/education/ X
General American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) http://www.aium.org/ X
General American Nuclear Society (ANS) http://www.ans.org X
Physician Association of Program Directors in Radiology (APDR) http://www.apdr.org/residents_and_fellows.cfm X
Physicist, Physician American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) http://www.astro.org X X
Physicist Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine (CCPM) http://www.ccpm.ca X X X X X
Physicist Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) http://www.medphys.ca/ X X X X X
Physicist, Physician Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) http://www.cpqr.ca/tqc.htm1 X
General Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD) http://www.crcpd.org X
General Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) http://medical.nema.org/ X
Physicist, Physician European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) http://www.estro.org X X X
ESTRO Brachytherapy Handbook http://www.estro‐education.org/publications/Documents/GEC ESTRO Handbook of Brachytherapy.html X X X
General The Joint Commission http://www.jointcommission.org/ X
Physicist Health Physics http://www.hps.org Society (HPS) X
Physician Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) http://www.intersocietal.org/echo X
General Institute for Magnetic Resonance Safety, Education, and Research (IMRSER) http://www.imrser.org/default.asp X
General Institute of Physics (IOP) http://physicsweb.org/resources/home X
Physicist Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) www.ipem.ac.uk X X X X
General International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) http://www.ismrm.org/resources/mr‐sites/ X X X
Physicist, Physician Radiation Therapy Oncology Group(RTOG) www.rtog.org/Home.aspx X X
RTOG Contouring Atlases http://www.rtog.org/CoreLab/ContouringAtlases.aspx X
General Radiation Research Society (RADRES) http://www.radres.org X
Physician Radiology Education Foundation http://www.refindia.net/rlinks/reviewedlinks/portals.htm X X
Physician Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) http://rsna.org/ X X
RSNA Science & Education http://rsna.org/education/physics.cfm X X
RSNA Education Offerings http://www.rsna.org/Education_Offerings.aspx X X
General RSNA/ACR http://www.radiologyinfo.org/ X X X X
General Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging http://www.snm.org/ X X X
Physicist International Society for Optics and Photonics http://www.spie.org X
National and International Agencies
Educational Categories
Intended Audience Author Hyperlink General Radiologic Physics Anatomy & Physiology Health Physics Radiation Biology Diagnostic Imaging Nuclear Medicine Radiation Therapy Misc.
General Food and Drug Administration (FDA) http://www.fda.gov X X
General US Government Information (FedWorld) http://fedworld.ntis.gov X X
Physicist International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) http://www.iaea.org X X X X X X
IAEA Division of Human Health http://www‐naweb.iaea.org/NAHLI/index.html X X X X X
IAEA Radiation Oncology Physics Handbook http://www‐naweb.iaea.org/nahu/DMRP/syllabus.html X X X
IAEA Slides of Radiation Oncology Physics Handbook http://www‐naweb.iaea.org/nahu/DMRP/slides.html X X X
IAEA Radiation Biology Handbook http://www‐pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/TCS‐42_web.pdf X
IAEA Distance Learning Course in Radiation Oncology http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Training/Aso/register.html X
IAEA Radiation Protection of Patients (RPOP) https://rpop.iaea.org/RPOP/RPoP/Content/index.htm X X X X
RPOP Publications https://rpop.iaea.org/RPOP/RPoP/Content/AdditionalResources/Publications/index.htm X X X X
RPOP Free material https://rpop.iaea.org/RPOP/RPoP/Content/AdditionalResources/Training/1TrainingMaterial/index.htm X X X X
Physicist International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) http://www.icrp.org X X X X X
Physicist National Institute of Standards and Technology http://www.nist.gov/pml/data/xraycoef/ X
General Nuclear Regulatory Commission http://www.nrc.gov X X X
General UK National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) http://www.nrpb.org/ X
General National Technical Information Service (NTIS) http://www.ntis.gov X X
University and College Websites
Educational Categories
Intended Audience Author Hyperlink Additional Information Physics/Radiologic Physics Anatomy & Physiology Health Physics Radiation Biology Diagnostic Imaging Nuclear Medicine Radiation Therapy Misc.
Physician Hall, E.C. http://www.columbia.edu/~ejh1/web‐rad‐train/review.html Radiologic review material X X
Physicist, Physician Barclay, A. http://www.emory.edu/CRL/abb Medical imaging resource page X X X X
Physicist European Medical Radiation Learning Development (EMERALD) http://www.emerald2.eu/emerald_index.html Training modules in medical radiation physics X X X X
http://www.emitel2.eu/emitwwwsql/index‐login.aspx Medical physics encyclopedia and multilingual dictionary X
http://emerald2.eu/mep/e‐book11/ETCBOOK2011_ebook_s.pdf Medical physics training book X X X X
Physicist, Physician Harvard University http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html Whole Brain Atlas X
Physicist Idaho State University Health Physics Society (ISUHPS) http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/index.html Radiation information network X X
Physician Mallinckrodt Inst. Radiology Nuc Med Faculty http://gamma.wustl.edu/home.html Teaching Files X X X X
Physicist, Physician Mallinckrodt Inst. Radiology Teaching Files http://www.rad.Washington.edu/anatomy/index.html Anatomy of the skeleton X
Physicist Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)/Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) http://www.orau.org/ptp/infores.htm Health physics resources X X
Physicist, Physician Homak, J.P. http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri Basics of MRI X X X
Physicist Redish, E.F. http://www2.physics.umd.edu/~redish/Book/ Link to textbook Teaching physics with the physics suite X
General University of North Carolina http://www.med.unc.edu/radonc/pro/education Computer Based Learning Modules for Clinical Dosimetry X X X X X
Physicist Woo, M. and K.H. Ng http://www.biij.org/rremp/Remote Real‐Time Learning (RRTL) X X X X X
Miscellaneous Websites
Educational Categories
Intended Audience Author Hyperlink Additional Information Physics/Radiologic Physics Anatomy & Physiology Health Physics Radiation Biology Diagnostic Imaging Nuclear Medicine Radiation Therapy Misc.
Physician Bergman, R.A. http://www.anatomyatlases.org/ Anatomy Atlases X
Physician Corporate http://www.auntminnie.com Discussion forum and news for radiologists X X X
Physicist, Physician CHORUS site http://chorus.rad.mew.edu Collaborative Hypertext of Radiology X X
Physicist, Physician Medical Imageworks LLC http://www.idoimaging.com/index.shtml_ Resource of free medical imaging software X
Physician Herring, W. http://www.leamingradiology.com/ Radiology teaching files X X
General Medcalc http://www.medcalc.com/ On‐line clinical calculators X
Physician MedPix http://rad.uuhs.edu/medpix/medpix.html?mode=tf2#top Radiological images X X
Physicist, Physician Pawlicki, T., S. Mutic, Brown, D., and P. Dunscombe http://treatsafely.org Resources to improve quality and safety in radiation medicine X X
Pawlicki, T., S. Mutic, Brown, D., and P. Dunscombe https://i.treatsafely.org Resources to improve quality and safety in radiation therapy X X
Physician Ballinger, R. http://www.mritutor.org/ Radiology/MRI teaching files X X
Physician D'Alessandro, M.P. http://www.pediatricradiology.com/ Discussion forum and educational resources X X
Physicist, Physician Radiation Dose Assessment Resource (RADAR) http://www.doseinfo‐radar.com Dose assessment resource X X
Physician D'Alessandro, M.P. http://www.radiologyeducation.com/ General Radiology teaching files X X
Physician Lewis, E. http://www.radiologyweb.com/ Discussion forum and educational resources X X
Physicist unknown http://www.revisemri.com/ MRI educational material X X
General Ness‐Aiver, M. http://www.simplyphyics.com/MAIN.HTM MRI physics material X
General Sprawls, P. http://www.sprawls.org/ppmi2,/ Medical physics resource material X X X
Sprawls, P. http://www.sprawls.org/resources/ X X X
General 1 Ultrarad http://www.lultrarad.com Ultrasound Imaging resources X
General Medical Education http://hub.webring.org/hub/mededrg Collection of sites related to Medical education X
General unknown http://www.xray2000.co.uk/ Medical imaging educational resources X X
Physician Mclaughlin, P. http://www.prostadoodle.com/ Prostate atlas X
General unknown http://www.radhelper.com/ Discussion forum X X
Physicist, Physician Ahmad, N. http://www.radquiz.com/ Radiology Information X X X X
Physicist Beavis, A.W., R. Phillips, and J.W. Ward http://www.vertual.co.uk/ Virtual Environment for Radiotherapy Training (VERT) X