university of pennsylvania school of veterinary medicine
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Robotic X-Rays Make Racehorses’ Lives Much Easier
In order to CT scan a horse, the 450kg animal has to be anaesthetised and carefully manoeuvred into a machine. The procedure is even more difficult than it sounds. A newly developed technique uses a pair of precisely-controlled robots to perform the scan, so that the animal can be awake and standing up while it’s…