Information resources for nuclear medicine

Providing doctors, scientists, technicians and researchers, timely access to information can enhance their ability for decision-making. The Internet is a potential means of enhancing such interactions. An information site on the Web has enormous potential as a medium for the specialist in Nuclear Medicine to retrieve information in the form of text, images, and video clips.

This paper provides a brief overview of several reliable Internet resources concerning Nuclear Medicine. Resources for Nuclear Medicine on the Internet include search engines, medical sources, advocacy sources, U.S. government sources, personal Web sites, public library databases, and commercial databases. Many helpful Internet resources have been identified on the basis of quality criteria, their relevance and the language availability. The paper includes four topic areas, the first provides a brief description of Nuclear Medicine, the second focuses on printed resources, the third provides a description of journal resources on the net and the last is a short overview of some databases available on the Web. With a modest amount of tutoring and effort required for information retrieval from net, one can expeditiously get the right information at the right time.