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In the past year the services available via the Internet have exploded in number, variety, and quality (1-5). Some services are now even available which are specifically designed for Radiology (6-9) and Nuclear Medicine (10,11). The Computer and Instrumentation Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine convened a focus group on the use of the Internet for Nuclear Medicine. This article is one product of that group. The main purpose of this article is to examine how the Internet can be used to facilitate collaboration. Development of an electronic case-based teaching file is used as the prototype application, since some of the members of the focus group already have experience with this application (11).
As new forms of communication such as FAX and electronic mail have appeared, they have not replaced older forms of communication such as mail or phone; rather, they have altered the patterns of communication among individuals, affecting both the frequency and manner in which previous forms of communication were used. Each mode of communication has particular capabilities; each provides the best method of communicating for a set of circumstances. As new methodologies are introduced, they open up new possibilities, causing a readjustment and realignment of the way all methodologies are used. One of the most interesting aspects of the new Internet protocols, especially the World-Wide-Web protocol, is that they tend to encourage collaboration.
Mosaic (1, 12-15), a World-Wide-Web (16-19) client program developed at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign has spurred rapid growth in the use of Internet. Mosaic or one of the many other World Wide Web clients that are now available provide a similar appearing point-and-click interface to the an array of electronic resources from almost any computer attached to the Internet.
| Title page | Introduction | Internet | Teaching file | Sharing | Conclusion | References |
| Table 1 | Table 2 | Table 3 | Table 4 | Figure 1 | Figure 2 |