Equine MRI

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.