Spaw City Animal Hospital has your pet’s best interest at heart at all times. We make sure that we stay up to date on the latest techniques and treatments so that we can diagnose and treat your pet most accurately. A most effective tool, digital radiography enables our veterinarians to safely and quickly assess the status of injuries or diseases that may be affecting your pet.
A painless, non-invasive procedure, digital radiography captures images of the body’s internal organs and skeletal system using very low doses of radiation. These images can be manipulated, enhanced, and contrasted, allowing our veterinarians to diagnose a condition more accurately. Typically, digital radiography can help with diagnosing fractures, locating foreign objects, detecting masses such as tumors, diagnosing pneumonia, discovering pregnancies, bladder stones, chronic arthritis, and certain spinal cord diseases.
Ultrasound/Thermal Imaging
Additional imaging technology that we utilize at Spaw City Animal Hospital includes ultrasound, and thermal imaging. While x-rays provide us with excellent images of bone, an ultrasound provides more detailed images and is the best way to identify problems with internal organs and soft tissue. Thermal imaging uses a special infrared camera that ultimately allows us to visualize potential areas of concern such as a lack of blood flow or inflammation, for example.
Since we provide chemotherapy and cancer treatment here at the clinic, we also use imaging to scan tumors allowing us to grade and stage them.