Equine MRI (eBook)

Rachel C. Murray, MA, VetMB, MS, PhD, MRCVS, Dipl ACVS, Dipl ECVS, is Senior Orthopaedic Advisor for the Centre for Equine Studies, Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, United Kingdom. She has been responsible for leading the Animal Health Trust equine clinical diagnostic MRI service and research since 2000, she interprets MRI for various clinics internationally, and has been involved with the development of MRI use in the horse for over ten years. She is an American boarded equine surgical specialist and has considerable clinical experience. She has published numerous clinical and research-related peer-reviewed papers on equine MRI, and frequently lectures internationally on the subject.

CONTRIBUTORS.

FOREWORD.

PREFACE.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

SECTION A Principles of MRI in horses.

1 BASIC MRI PRINCIPLES (Nick Bolas).

2 HIGH-FIELD MRI IN HORSES: PRACTICALITIES AND IMAGE
ACQUISITION.

2A Practicalities and image acquisition (Rachel
Murray).

2B General anaesthesia for MRI (Elizabeth Leece).

2C Contrast agents in equine MRI (Carter Judy).

3 LOW-FIELD MRI IN HORSES: PRACTICALITIES AND IMAGE ACQUISITION
(Natasha Werpy).

4 IMAGE INTERPRETATION AND ARTEFACTS (Rachel Murray and
Natasha Werpy).

SECTION B Normal MRI Anatomy.

5 THE FOOT AND PASTERN.

5A Adult horse (Sue Dyson).

5B Foal anatomical development (Bert Van Thielen and Rachel
Murray).

6 THE FETLOCK REGION (Merry Smith and Sue Dyson0.

7 THE METACARPAL/METATARSAL REGION (Matthew Brokken and
Russell Tucker).

8 THE CARPUS (Annamaria Nagy and Sue Dyson0.

9 THE TARSUS (Sue Dyson and Rachel Murray).

10 THE STIFLE (Rachel Murray, Natasha Werpy and Simon
Collins).

11 THE HEAD (Russell Tucker and Shannon Holmes).

SECTION C Pathology.

12 THE FOOT AND PASTERN (Sue Dyson and Rachel
Murray).

13 THE FETLOCK REGION (Sarah Powell).

14 THE METACARPAL/METATARSAL REGION (Matthew Brokken, Russell
Tucker and Rachel Murray).

15 THE CARPAL REGION (Sarah Powell and Rachel
Murray).

16 THE DISTAL TARSAL REGION (Sue Dyson).

17 THE PROXIMAL TARSAL REGION (Rachel Murray, Natasha Werpy,
Fabrice Audigié, Jean-Marie Denoi, Matthew Brokken and Thorben
Schulze).

18 THE STIFLE (Carter Judy).

19 THE HEAD (Russell Tucker, Katherine Garrett, Stephen Reed
and Rachel Murray).

SECTION D Clinical management and outcome.

20 THE FOOT AND PASTERN (Andrew Bathe).

21 THE FETLOCK REGION.

21A General (Sue Dyson).

21B Thoroughbred racehorses (Sarah Powell).

22 THE METACARPAL/METATARSAL REGION.

22A US perspective (Matthew Brokken and Russell
Tucker).

22B UK perspective (Sue Dyson).

22C Thoroughbred racehorses (Sarah Powell).

23 THE CARPUS.

23A Osseous injury (Sarah Powell).

23B Soft tissue injury (Rachel Murray).

24 THE TARSUS (Tim Mair and Ceri Sherlock).

25 THE HEAD (Russell Tucker, Katherine Garrett, Stephen Reed
and Rachel Murray).

INDEX.

"The authors are to be congratulated on an excellent job
and this text, like those dedicated to other imaging modalities,
will be required reading for equine veterinarians working with lame
horses. Equine MRI is recommended for specialist
radiologists and equine clinicians already using MRI, but because
of the way it

has been written, students, residents and general practitioners
working with lame horses would also be interested in this
book." (Australian Veterinary Journal, 28
January 2013)
"It is also aimed at clinicians who spend much of their time
investigating and treating lame horses. For these audiences, this
well written, beautifully illustrated and thoroughly referenced
text is a must." (Veterinary Record, 28 January 2012)

"This is a high quality work and an excellent reference for
veterinarians wishing to learn about this new and exciting field."
(Doody's, 7 October 2011)

"This book gives an excellent account of MRI as a powerful tool
in the understanding of equine anatomy, physiology and pathology.
Clinicians and researchers both now and in the future will be
grateful to Rachel Murray for all the contributions for bringing
together their experience and producing it in such a coherent way."
(Veterinary Practice, 1 August 2011)

"This book is written in a generally very readable and logical
format and, as such, is extremely useful to equine clinicians
referring cases for MRI as well as those opearting MR systems and
interpreting scans." (Veterinary Times, 28 March 2011)