Digital Radiograph Guidelines:

Please provide the following:

• A summary of the patient’s condition, with your clinical examination findings in the body of the email.
• Up to eight radiographs relevant to the condition under investigation. We prefer you attempt to localise the condition wherever possible before imaging and correctly position the patient for radiography. Please note that poorly positioner radiographs are returned without interpretation.
• Pet’s name and owner’s surname
• Practice name, vet’s name, and contact number
• Radiographs in DICOM or JPEG format (high resolution) – files larger than 12MB in total must be sent via We Transfer or Dropbox.

For guidance on images for investigation where localisation is not possible, we typically use the following survey radiographs:

Pelvic limbs: Lateral LS spine (centred L7), VD pelvis (femur extended and parallel), left and right lateral crus including stifle and tarsus (centred stifle), left and right caudocranial tarsus and pes. Additional views with lesion localisation would include VD pelvis (abducted aka frog leg) and left and right caudocranial stifle and crus. Orthogonal views are always preferred.

Thoracic limbs: Lateral left and right shoulder, lateral flexed and craniocaudal elbow, AP left and right carpus and manus; additional views with lesion localisation would include left and right caudocranial shoulder, left and right lateral carpus and manus, left and right lateral extended elbow. Orthogonal views are always preferred.

Reporting will be delayed by the submission of low-quality images so please try and send the highest quality in the first instance.

We do not offer interpretation of MRI or CT images.