DR FOR EQUINE XRAY FOR DUMMIES

Veterinarians can complete bone scans in standing sedated horses in the clinic. “A radioactive material is injected by way of a catheter positioned in the jugular vein,” states Reilly. “This radioisotope has a very small half-life of six hours (i.e., half from the radioactivity will be gone in six hrs). Within a handful of hrs in the injectio