What are common applications of MRI and CT in horses?
MRI and CT provide an early link to the diagnosis of injuries or disease in horses. Both modalities have provided practitioners with new avenues to better diagnose a variety of disease conditions in horses before the disease process takes hold, causing potentially life-threatening complications. MRI and CT are not mutually exclusive technologies and should be selected based on respective advantages, purpose and cost. Common applications of MRI in horses include: • Foot, fetlock, suspensory joints, carpus, hock and heads are regions capable of being examined through MR in the horse. • MR allows highly detailed images to be obtained in multiple planes of bone and soft tissue, and the use of MRI can help determine specific causes of lameness. This is extremely important, because an accurate diagnosis of the horse’s problem allows appropriate treatment recommendations to be made. • An MRI examination is indicated when the results of other imaging techniques do not yield a diagnosis. MRI al
