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- We're New Bolton Center,
Penn Vet's large animal
hospital and we're really
excited to launch our Equimagine
4DDI CT imaging system
to change the face
of equine imaging.
There's a lot of aspects of
equine biomechanics that we
don't understand.
The limb in motion,
there's a lot of forces
that occur and we
don't know how that
translates into the
risk for injury and this
will allow us to assess that.
- The really thrilling part
of this is that we hope to
be able to get these
three dimensional images
in a horse that's standing.
The idea is that they
will not have to be placed
under general anesthesia
to do the majority
of the studies.
- From a clinical standpoint,
we will literally see things
that we've never seen before.
- We're not only going
to find new, specific
abnormalities and
new characterizations
of those but we also
think that the opportunity
that 3D imaging
provides is precision.
- The ability of the
resolution is much higher,
and we'll be able to
detect injuries hopefully
at much earlier stages
and prevent things
that could be fatal
either to the horse
or honestly, to the rider.
- One of the most important
diseases of Thoroughbred
racehorses is that they
develop certain types
of stress fractures that
are very difficult to
diagnose and characterize.
This technology has the
potential to diagnose
those early enough that
we can recognize them,
manage them and help
prevent the horse from
suffering a catastrophic
breakdown on the racetrack.
Another really exciting
role that we think
we can play here at
New Bolton Center is to
provide an avenue for
translational work.
- And the problems that
we're going to solve
here today, which is
basically acquiring images
with a significant
amount of motion in
a standing horse, those
very same solutions
can translate into
the human market.
Instead of a child
having to be anesthetized
and having an image
performed of its head
or its chest, they can
sit there on their iPad
and talk to their parents
and have the image performed
in 30 seconds.
So that's one of the
translational pieces
that we hope to bring to Penn.
- 4DDI is very
proud to be part of
the Penn University Consortium.
We're only touching the
elements of automation
that will be brought into
medicine with technology
like that.
- Penn is very excited
to have this opportunity.
For sure this is the first
installation of this kind
in a veterinary school,
and we're really
looking forward to seeing
what we can do with it.
