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Advanced imaging for Zoo’s
I was wondering if any of you have work at a hospital has a contract with a zoo to do advanced imaging on their animals? CT and MRI. We want to with our zoo as do they, but I have no where to start with a contract and was wondering if anyone has a contract they can share as a starter for me. Thanks Anthony
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Brookfield Zoo outside of Chicago has a whole department for imaging. It was in the local paper – Chicago Tribune a couple of years ago. I would check with the zoo. They apparently have Veterinarian Radiologist(s) that does/do all the imaging, like CT, US, Xray, maybe even MRI there.
I doubt that there are any hospitals that actually allow animals into their imaging departments. I worked at one outpatient imaging center that allowed animals for CT/Open MRI imaging for a month, one day a week after hours because the local veterinary imaging center was down for repairs. Veterinary Radiologists did the readings. They were onsite because they had to sedate the animals (only dogs and cats) to get the imaging studies done.
It was kind of fun but then it became a pain in the ass. Also very poor reimbursement.
