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Thursday, 10 May 2018 By Vet Image Solutions

Over the next few weeks we will be turning the spotlight onto you, looking at your experiences of ultrasound imaging. Each article will focus on an individual’s ultrasonography journey, and should hopefully give a taste of what it is like to be an ultrasound practitioner for anyone considering undertaking a similar career path. If you would like to be involved in this series, please contact us and we will send you a short questionnaire to fill out.

SIEMENS ACUSON FREESTYLE EQUINE TENDON SCANNER

Thursday, 10 May 2018 By Vet Image Solutions

The new Siemens Acuson Freestyle is now available for veterinary use. Ideal for equine tendon scanning, the machine itself can be located anywhere in the room (well out of danger!), as the transducer is completely wireless.

KNOW THE FACTS ABOUT VETERINARY ULTRASOUND – PART 2

Thursday, 10 May 2018 By Vet Image Solutions

We continue our ‘ultrasound fact bonanza’ this week with fifteen further pieces of information all relating to the field of veterinary ultrasound. It should be noted however that this list is by no means comprehensive, and there are many more aspects of ultrasonography just waiting to be explored.

MEERKAT MAYHEM 2

Thursday, 10 May 2018 By Vet Image Solutions

We continue our meerkat journey this week following my interview with Dr Dominic Cram, working on The Kalahari Meerkat Project run by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock. Dr Cram used a Sonoscape S6 BW ultrasound machine with a linear probe (L742) to carry out his studies, and last time we looked at the results yielded following the scanning of meerkats.

MEERKAT MAYHEM 1

Thursday, 10 May 2018 By Vet Image Solutions

It would be quite a challenge to not be aware of the now infamous advertisements that follow our furry meerkat friends on a variety of different adventures in a bid to help you choose your insurance or energy company. However here at Vet Image Solutions we are interested in meerkats for a whole other reason, namely in a bid to use veterinary ultrasound to detect and assess pregnancy.

CATS, LYMPHOMA AND ULTRASONOGRAPHY: A GOOD COMBINATION

Thursday, 10 May 2018 By Vet Image Solutions

This week the use of ultrasound in the diagnosis of a specific intestinal disorder is explored, using the cat as a clinical model of disease. Results were derived from a paper by Zwingenberger, AL et al. (Ultrasonographic Evaluation of the Muscularis Propria in Cats with Diffuse Small Intestinal Lymphoma or Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2010 March/April 24(2): pp289-292).