Searchable medical physics library.

E. B. Podgorsak (IAEA)

The complete radiation oncology physics syllabus, free from the IAEA.

Bushberg, Seibert, Leidholdt & Boone

Reference text for radiography, CT, MRI, ultrasound and nuclear medicine physics.

Frank H. Attix

Foundational treatment of radiation interactions, cavity theory and dosimetry.

IAEA

Open-access companion volume dedicated to diagnostic imaging physics.

IAEA

PET, SPECT, radiopharmacy and internal dosimetry in one volume.

AAPM

Competency framework used by accredited residency programmes.

Anthony B. Wolbarst

Accessible introduction bridging clinical practice and physical principles.

Joseph John Bevelacqua

Modern survey of imaging physics with problem sets for students.

Todd Pawlicki, Daniel Scanderbeg & George Starkschall

Updated classic covering treatment units, dose calculation and QA.

William R. Hendee & E. Russell Ritenour

Broad introductory text for radiologic science programmes.

Donald Graham, Paul Cloke & Martin Vosper

Concise UK text for diagnostic radiography students.

Steve Webb (ed.)

Comprehensive multi-author reference on imaging modalities and image quality.

Faiz M. Khan & John P. Gibbons

The standard reference for external beam therapy and dose calculation.

Khan, Gerbi

Site-by-site planning technique, from 3D-CRT to SBRT.

AAPM

Tolerance limits and methodologies for patient-specific IMRT QA.

AAPM

Physics, dose prescription and QA for SBRT programmes.

ICRU

Volume definitions and dose-reporting conventions for modern planning.

ESTRO

European reference on brachytherapy physics and clinical practice.

Harald Paganetti

Beam delivery, dosimetry and biology of proton and particle therapy.

NRG Oncology

Consensus target and organ-at-risk delineation atlases.

Jane Dobbs, Ann Barrett & David Ash

Clinically oriented planning atlas with site-specific techniques.

Richard Hoppe, Theodore Phillips & Mack Roach

Disease-site text with strong physics and planning integration.

R. M. A. D. T. (Ralph) Aird

Compact guide to radiotherapy physics and clinical practice.

Jürgen Jeremic & Stanley Order

Specialised text on benign-disease radiotherapy physics and outcomes.

IAEA

International code of practice based on standards of absorbed dose to water.

AAPM

North American clinical reference dosimetry protocol.

IAEA / AAPM

Code of practice for small static fields used in modern radiotherapy.

Andreo, Burns, Nahum, Seuntjens

Rigorous modern treatment of dosimetry theory and practice.

NIST

Attenuation coefficients for any element, compound or mixture.

NIST

Stopping-power and range tables for electrons, protons and alphas.

ICRU

Updated fundamental constants underpinning dosimetry standards.

Jiang Hsieh

Definitive treatment of CT physics, reconstruction and artifact origins.

AAPM

Task-based performance evaluation for iterative and AI reconstruction.

American College of Radiology

Phantom testing and QC criteria across every imaging modality.

Beutel, Kundel, Van Metter

Three-volume reference on physics, perception and image processing.

EUREF

Physico-technical protocol for digital mammography QC.

Kremkau

Transducers, Doppler, artifacts and safety indices.

Jiang Hsieh

Practical guide to identifying and mitigating CT artifacts.

Kenneth L. Adler & A. Thomas Stavros

Comprehensive breast imaging physics and clinical interpretation.

A. Carlson Merrow & Selena Hariharan

Image-rich pediatric radiology atlas with physics pearls.

Lawrence W. Bassano & Edward L. Nickoloff

Fluoroscopy physics, equipment and dose management.

Bernstein, King, Zhou

Encyclopaedic reference on sequence design and gradient waveforms.

McRobbie et al.

The most readable route into MRI physics for clinicians.

Allen D. Elster

Continuously updated Q&A covering every corner of MR physics.

ACR

Zoning, screening, implants and SAR management.

ISMRM

Lectures and weekend courses from the MR research community.

HCP / NIH

High-quality structural, functional and diffusion MRI datasets.

Robert E. Steiner

Concise clinical MRI physics with safety emphasis.

Ray Hashman Hashemi, William G. Bradley & Christopher J. Lisanti

Accessible primer on MRI physics and clinical applications.

Paul Tofts (ed.)

Methods for quantitative MR biomarkers and validation.

Derek K. Jones (ed.)

Comprehensive reference on diffusion imaging physics and analysis.

Cherry, Sorenson & Phelps

The standard text on detectors, tomography and tracer kinetics.

SNMMI

Formalism and data for internal radiation dose calculation.

OpenDose Collaboration

Community-generated Monte Carlo dosimetric data for radionuclides.

EANM

Practical dosimetry procedures for therapy radionuclides.

ICRP

Reference biokinetic models and dose coefficients.

Harvey A. Ziessman, Janis P. O'Malley & James H. Thrall

Core nuclear medicine text with physics and clinical correlation.

E. Edmund Kim, Myung-Chul Lee & Tomio Inoue

PET physics, radiochemistry and clinical applications.

David M. Schuster & E. Edmund Kim

Clinical SPECT/CT physics, acquisition and interpretation.

Martin S. Judenhofer & Simon R. Cherry

Principles of molecular imaging systems and probes.

ICRP

International recommendations on protection and dose limits.

NCRP

US guidance on shielding design and imaging safety.

IAEA

Practical safety guidance and training material for clinical teams.

IAEA

International basic safety standards for radiation protection.

Alliance for Radiation Safety

Dose optimisation resources for paediatric imaging.

ACR / RSNA / AAPM / ASRT

Adult medical imaging dose-awareness programme.

NCRP

Shielding design for medical X-ray imaging facilities.

Hall & Giaccia

The classic bridge between radiation physics and biology.

Joiner & van der Kogel

ESTRO-linked text on fractionation and the 5 Rs.

IJROBP

Quantitative dose-volume constraints for organs at risk.

AAPM

Hypofractionated treatment-effect modelling for SBRT-era practice.

CERN Collaboration

Monte Carlo toolkit for simulating particle transport through matter.

TOPAS Collaboration

Geant4-based Monte Carlo designed for medical and proton physics.

OpenGATE

Simulation of PET, SPECT, CT and radiotherapy dosimetry.

National Research Council Canada

Reference coupled electron-photon transport code for dosimetry.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

General-purpose transport code widely used in shielding studies.

COMSOL

FEA platform for coupled heat, mass transfer and bioheat modelling.

FEniCS

Open finite element framework for solving PDEs in Python.

Project MONAI

PyTorch framework purpose-built for medical imaging deep learning.

DKFZ

Self-configuring segmentation baseline that wins most challenges.

AIM Harvard

Standardised extraction of radiomic features from medical images.

AAPM

Recommendations on developing and validating clinical AI tools.

Radboud UMC

Benchmark challenges and datasets for medical image analysis.

NCI

Open de-identified DICOM collections for research and validation.

AAPM

Tolerance tables for daily, monthly and annual linac QA.

AAPM

FMEA and fault-tree methods applied to radiotherapy safety.

AAPM

Full archive of freely available reports defining QA practice.

ASTRO / AAPM

National incident-learning programme and published safety themes.

IAEA

Commissioning and QA protocols for imaging and therapy equipment.

Wiley / AAPM

Flagship journal of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

IOP / IPEM

Imaging, therapy physics, modelling and instrumentation.

AAPM

Clinically oriented studies on QA, planning and safety.

EFOMP

European Journal of Medical Physics.

ESTRO

Clinical and physics research in radiation oncology.

NIH / NLM

35M+ biomedical citations, including medical physics and dosimetry.

arXiv

Open preprints in medical physics and image reconstruction.

DOAJ

Index of vetted fully open-access scientific journals.

Elsevier / ASTRO

The Red Journal: clinical and translational radiation oncology research.

BIR

General radiology and medical physics research with open-access options.

Wiley / RANZCR

Imaging and radiation oncology physics across the Asia-Pacific region.

Elsevier / DGMP

German-language medical physics journal with English abstracts.

Springer / SIIM

Medical imaging informatics, AI integration and workflow.

IEEE

High-impact engineering and image-reconstruction research.

Springer / ESR

Clinical radiology with strong physics and technology focus.

Open radiology encyclopedia

Thousands of annotated cases across every imaging modality.

IMAIOS

Interactive cross-sectional atlas built on real CT and MRI series.

Slicer Community

Free platform for visualization, segmentation and registration.

NLM

Complete cryosection, CT and MRI datasets of the human body.

DBCLS

Free 3D anatomical models for teaching and illustration.

Pixmeo

Sample DICOM studies for training and software testing.

Frank H. Netter

Classic anatomical illustrations used by radiologists and physicists.

E. L. Ritman / Mayo Clinic

Correlative CT anatomy atlas for cross-sectional imaging.

Radiology Assistant / IMAIOS

Annotated MR anatomy by region for trainees.

Johns Hopkins / Elliot Fishman

Interactive CT anatomy teaching atlas.

Stanford University

High-resolution 7T anatomical brain atlas.

Perk Lab / Queen's University

Radiotherapy planning and imaging datasets for teaching.

CBICA / UPenn

Visual analytics and radiomic feature extraction platform.

MD Anderson / ASTRO

Anatomical atlas linked to radiotherapy contouring guidelines.

DICOM Library

Public anonymised DICOM cases for QA and training.

Open source

Python library for reading and modifying DICOM datasets.

ITK Community

Registration, filtering and segmentation across many languages.

Open source

Analysis of radiotherapy plans, doses and DVHs.

Open source

Automated analysis of routine linac and imaging QA phantoms.

DKFZ

Open treatment planning research toolkit for photons and ions.

Orthanc Team

Lightweight PACS for research and teaching environments.

AAPM

Recorded lectures, symposia and continuing-education material.

IAEA

Free training resources in radiation medicine and medical physics.

ESTRO

European courses in radiation oncology physics and planning.

American Board of Radiology

Official content specifications for Part 1, 2 and 3 exams.

CAMPEP

Directory of accredited graduate and residency programmes.

MIT

Free university courses in radiation interactions and transport.

IAEA

Every IAEA handbook, TRS code of practice and human-health report as free PDFs.

ICRP

Free-to-read recommendations on radiological protection.

NCRP

Selected US national reports on radiation protection released at no cost.

AAPM

All Task Group reports are freely downloadable, no membership required.

AAPM / Wiley

Fully open-access clinical medical physics journal.

ESTRO / Elsevier

Free ESTRO journal on imaging and treatment-planning physics.

NIH / NLM

Millions of free full-text biomedical and medical physics papers.

arXiv

Free preprints in dosimetry, imaging, Monte Carlo and AI.

NCI

Free de-identified CT, MRI and PET collections for research.

Community

Free chapter-level notes covering imaging and radiotherapy physics.

Community

Free board-review notes and worked problems for physics residents.

OpenStax (Rice University)

Free peer-reviewed physics textbook, ideal prerequisite reading.

CERN / OpenGATE

Free Monte Carlo toolkits with complete tutorials for medical applications.

EMITEL / IOMP

Free multilingual encyclopaedia of medical physics terminology.

IOMP

Free international bulletins and e-books for the global community.

Radiation Oncology Physics

Structured lecture series on therapy physics, QA and dosimetry.

Radiopaedia

Imaging physics explainers from the open radiology encyclopedia.

IAEA

Official IAEA webinars on dosimetry, protection and clinical audits.

AAPM

Annual meeting sessions, task-group talks and career panels.

ESTRO

European radiotherapy physics courses, webinars and interviews.

RSNA

Radiology and imaging-physics education from the RSNA meetings.

Radiology Tutorials

Short, clear videos on X-ray, CT, MRI and ultrasound physics.

MRI education channels

Pulse sequences, k-space and artefacts explained visually.

Various academic channels

SPECT/PET instrumentation, reconstruction and internal dosimetry.

OpenGATE / Geant4 community

Step-by-step simulation tutorials for medical physics research.

COMSOL

Modeling, bioheat transfer and FEA tutorials used in medical physics.

ANSYS

Free FEA and simulation courses applicable to biomedical modeling.

MIT

Full university lecture series in nuclear science and radiation physics.

Khan Academy

Foundation-level physics for students entering medical physics.

Community educators

ABR Part 1/2 review videos with worked exam-style problems.

American Board of Radiology

Official content outline for the general medical physics written exam.

American Board of Radiology

Specialty syllabus for therapy, imaging and nuclear medical physics.

American Board of Radiology

The five oral exam categories and clinical expectations.

CAMPEP

Official directory of accredited MS, PhD and certificate programs.

CAMPEP

All accredited clinical residencies with contact information.

RAPHEX

Annual exam-style question sets used by nearly every resident.

AAPM

Every task group report — the backbone of board answers.

AAPM

Centralized residency match portal and timeline.

Walter Huda

Compact, high-yield review widely used for board preparation.

IAEA / Podgorsak slides

Free slide decks and exercises matching the IAEA handbook chapters.

Peter Hoskins, Kevin Martin & Abigail Thrush

Clear treatment of transducers, beam forming, Doppler and artifacts.

AIUM

Performance testing requirements for clinical ultrasound units.

AAPM

Quality assurance of transrectal ultrasound imaging systems.

James A. Zagzebski

Concise foundation text for imaging physicists and sonographers.

ICNIRP

Exposure limits for RF, static fields and lasers used in medicine.

NEMA / DICOM Standards Committee

The full, free standard — essential for any imaging physics work.

IHE International

Integration profiles governing clinical imaging workflows.

pydicom contributors

Python library to read, modify and write DICOM objects.

Open-source community

Free PACS and DICOM toolkits for research environments.

NCI

Huge public archive of de-identified imaging studies for research.

US NRC

Occupational and public dose limits, surveys and records.

US NRC

Rules for medical use of byproduct material and written directives.

IAEA

International radiation protection and safety requirements.

US FDA

Quality standards and physicist survey requirements for mammography.

AAPM

Scope of practice, staffing models and professional conduct.

ICRP

The current system of radiological protection.

IAEA

Global database of radiotherapy infrastructure and capacity gaps.

Atun et al.

Landmark analysis of worldwide radiotherapy access and economics.

IAEA

Free training resources for physicists in developing programmes.

IOMP regional bodies

African and Middle-Eastern medical physics networks and events.

WHO

Patient radiation safety in healthcare settings worldwide.