Companion Animal Thermography

We don't just specialize in equine thermography we also perform animal thermography on many types of animals following appropriate preparation. The equipment is very versatile and can be used on a number of types of animals when environmental factors don't interfere.

Animal Thermography in Dogs

The animal thermography enhanced image to the top-right shows the two rear legs of a hunting dog. The area of the left leg in the circle shows an abnormal thermal pattern. The arrows indicate a sympathetic response to the cold surface the dog is standing on.

A Springer Spaniel (middle-right) was presented with severe neck pain. The white hot spots seen on this dog's back in the infrared image at right are indicative of injured vertebral disk. Further diagnostic evaluation with x-ray, CT scan, and/or MRI etc, will more definitively show the full extent of the back pathology present in this dog. After initial treatment, more infrared imaging will be helpful in assessing the patient's response to treatment. This is an example of diagnostic animal thermography.

In the animal thermography image below is a dog with diffuse undiagnosed pain of 4 years duration. These animal thermography images of a large dog show multiple intervertebral disk (IVD) involvement along the entire spinal column. The result from the veterinary thermogram is an increased (hot) nerve irritation (red-orange) at some levels, and typical sympathetic (cold) irritation at others (blue-purple). This is another example of diagnostic animal thermography

Thermography in other Animals

At the bottom-right is an x-ray of the paraplegic cat seen on the right. The red arrows point to the spot where the air gun pellet is located on the spine. There isn't any heat seen in that area of the animal thermography image which indicates that inflammation may no longer be a factor in the paralysis seen in this cat.