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Services offered by Internet are increasing continually and 15,000 medical websites covering all the specialties are available presently. Finding relevant information with a spider-web organization is difficult. We recommend starting with hierarchical lists which propose a selection of sites corresponding to medical specialties. We give our selection of important radiological websites dealing with image databases, case reports, radioanatomy and continuing medical education. While surfing the Web, an evaluation of the quality of websites is necessary. We used quality criteria proposed by Darmoni to rate the quality of ten websites. The global quality is good; help pages and external links are the main noticed shortcomings. All webmasters should pay attention to quality criteria and show visible marks of Darmoni criteria on their home page. To be able to foresee which Internet options should be developed, we evaluated our website and sent a questionnaire to our users. Clinical cases are the most requested facilities; they could be used for continuing medical education.
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Received: 28 January 1999; Revised: 13 July 1999; Accepted: 23 August 1999
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Rolland, Y., Bousquet, C., Pouliquen, B. et al. Radiology on Internet: advice in consulting websites and evaluating their quality. Eur Radiol 10, 859–866 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300051020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003300051020