Radiopaedia

Radiopaedia is a wiki-based international collaborative educational web resource containing a radiology encyclopedia and imaging case repository. It is currently the largest freely available radiology related resource in the world with more than 60,000 patient cases and over 16,000 reference articles on radiology-related topics. The open edit nature of articles allows radiologists, radiology trainees, radiographers, sonographers, and other healthcare professionals interested in medical imaging to refine most content over time. An editorial board peer reviews all contributions.

==Background== Radiopaedia was started as a past-time project to store radiology notes and cases online by the Australian neuroradiologist Associate Professor Frank Gaillard in December 2005, while he was a radiology resident. Galliard previously had tried to print out films but they were bulky to carry. He also experimented with saving digital images on thumb drive or hard drives but found that it was difficult to keep track on them. Galliard built a Linux server to host the site. He then programmed the site using MediaWiki, the same program platform as Wikipedia.