CT Scan IN Birds
The Bird Vet Facility in Melbourne now offers Bird CT scanning services to our patients at the Bird Vet Hospital in Burwood. This is part of Bird Vet Melbourne's commitment to providing comprehensive Avian veterinary care. Bird-vet CT scans offer a far more detailed view of your bird's body than X-rays alone. This Avian CT is a diagnostic service that enables our experienced avian veterinary team to explore and evaluate internal structures with much more detail and even in a three-dimensional view.
How does an Avian CT Scan work at the Bird Veterinary Hospital in Melbourne?
Avian CT scan, also known as Avian Computed Tomography, involves taking a series of X-ray images from different angles and using computer processing to create a three-dimensional image of the examined area.
Bird-Vet Computer Tomography works by taking multiple individual 2D x-ray images of the area of interest and a computer and transforming the images into a readable “three-dimensional image.”
The Bird-Vet CT images that a CT scan produces are high-resolution images. The Melbourne-based Bird Vet recommends Avian CT for many areas including, the head and beak, lungs, abdominal organs, lymph nodes, nasal cavities and the inner ear. We are also able to do Bird-vet contrast CT, which a dye injected intravenously during the parrot-CT. The interpretation of the Bird-CT is done by a Veterinary radiologist.