CT Scans

Advanced imaging services for pets.

We consider our hospital lucky to be able to offer CT scans to clients. Our GE Unit is an eight slice CT scanner; this means it can take eight radiographic slices in a single rotation. With these radiographic slices we are able to see things otherwise not visible in other diagnostic imaging procedures, like standard radiographs or ultrasound. We are also able to manipulate these images and turn them into 3D images. When we perform a CT scan we can also inject an intravenous contrast to help enhance vessels, tissues, or masses.

Our CT Scan Services

Here are a few scans we do and what we might diagnose from them:

Head: Skull fractures, maxillofacial abnormalities or tumors, tympanic bulla issues, ear canal tumors, retrobulbar abscess, optic issues, or salivary issues.
Brain: Tumors, inflammation, swelling, atrophy, hydrocephalus, or trauma/hemorrhage
Nasal Cavity: Nasal tumors, destructive rhinitis, or foreign bodies
Spine: Spinal tumors, vertebral fractures, and we can use the CT to perform myelograms which will help us find compressed disks
Musculoskeletal: Complex fractures, elbow dysplasia, fragmented medial coronoid process, brachial plexus tumors, and bone tumors
Thorax: pulmonary, mediastinal, and rib tumors, pleural disease, lung tumors, heart tumors, and metastatic screening
Abdomen: Pancreatic lesions, retroperitoneal tumors, pelvic tumors, portosystemic shunts, or ectopic ureters