Abstract

It is well worth registering for a free subscription to the professional edition of Medcyclopaedia http://www.amershamhealth.com/medcyclopaedia/medical/index.asp from Amersham Health. This encyclopedia of medical imaging contains in excess of 18,000 key words that accompany more than 10,000 illustrations. Text and images can be copied for noncommercial use in lectures, articles, etc., and the thumbnails open at either high or low resolution. The search engine can be primed to search the Encyclopedia of Medical Imaging's eleven volumes covering "Physics," "Techniques and Procedures," "Normal Anatomy," "Musculoskeletal and Soft Tissue Imaging," "Gastrointestinal and Urogenital Imaging," "Chest and Cardiovascular Imaging," "Neuroradiology and Head and Neck Imaging," and "Paediatric Imaging." Clicking the "mouse/brain" icon will take you to their E-learning package where you can improve your interpretation of medical imaging. The excellent quality images are presented as MRI, CT, x-ray, or drawings, and the accompanying text is fully keyword cross-referenced. It also offers a particularly useful search facility called "search marked text" which will interrogate selected online resources using text that has been highlighted by the reader. Finally, "Face to Face" on the menu offers discussions of clinical cases.