Application
Veterinary Practice
Equine and small-animal imaging — hoof, fetlock and distal-limb work alongside small-animal scans.
Why it works
The setup.
In horses, the diagnostic question usually sits in the distal limb. In a 235-horse lameness series, forelimb lameness was the most common presentation and 79.4% of it originated in the distal region — exactly where radiography and ultrasound reach their limit.
An open-gauge permanent-magnet system at 0.25–0.3T reaches that region with dedicated coils: a hoof coil, a fetlock coil, and body coils sized for small animals. Standing low-field MRI is the configuration veterinary practice settled on — the published literature puts it at 0.27T and notes that it requires sedation only, where high-field imaging requires general anaesthesia.
- A small modular enclosure rather than a full shielded room.
- Single-phase power and, in most sites, no floor reinforcement.
- Permanent magnet — no liquid helium, no cryogenic service.
- AI reconstruction and assisted reading to support sites without an on-staff radiologist.
The problem, in numbers
Why this needs its own machine.
Third-party figures, not our own — each one links back to a published source you can check.
79.4%
of forelimb lameness in a 235-horse series originated in the distal limb — where radiography and ultrasound have the least to say.
Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 2025
23%
of a 267-horse series was diagnosed with distal interphalangeal joint pain — the single most common finding.
Equine Veterinary Journal, 2025
0.27T
is the established field strength for standing equine low-field MRI. Standing systems require sedation only; high-field imaging requires general anaesthesia.
Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound (2009); PLOS ONE (2019)
Imaging
Sample images.
Clinical images require written authorization from the source institution and removal of patient identifiers.
Recommended systems
What we would suggest.
Talk to us about your site.
Tell us where the system needs to go and what you need to image. We will tell you what is possible.