The facility allows for the imaging of nearly all areas of most of our patients’ bodies as an aid to diagnosis, from simple bone fractures to identifying more complicated e.g. lung diseases.
The ultrasound machine provides further information that acts in a complementary way to the information provided by X-rays. Routine tests also available include pregnancy diagnosis by ultrasound (we can even make you a copy of the pictures).
All patients have to be anaesthetised for radiography so the human operators are not exposed to radiation. We therefore use positioning aids like foam wedges and sandbags to hold the animal in the positions required in getting the correct picture.