Cincinnati Zoo Silverback Gorilla Gets Heart Checkup

Cincinnati Zoo, The Christ Hospital and Toshiba Team Up for a Preventative Study

Jomo, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s 19 year-old silverback, western lowland gorilla recently received a heart checkup as part of a preventative study.  A team of human cardiologists, technicians and corporate partners made the house call to the Cincinnati Zoo’s Gorilla World [...]

Brookfield Zoo Features State of the Art Animal Imaging Suite

The Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo is home to a world-class imaging suite, including a newly installed CT scanner, digital radiography (x-ray), mammography, and ultrasound.  In addition to the CT scanner, the zoo’s collection includes a Sedecal large animal x-ray system, a GE Senographe 800T mammography unit, two Eklin digital radiography systems, a PACS storage [...]

Houston Zoo Uses Ultrasound to Monitor Rare Asian Elephant Pregnancies

The Houston Zoo has experienced an elephant baby boom this year. In May, 19 year old Asian elephant Shanti delivered a male calf named Baylor, and early this October, 29 year old Tess delivered another healthy calf. Tess’ calf, a girl, was named Tupelo by the Zoo’s elephant care team. For a variety of reasons, [...]

Ultrasound Plays Important Role in Chicken Ovarian Cancer Studies

Our medical community has long struggled to find an appropriate animal model for the study of human ovarian cancer, a disease which causes 140,000 human deaths annually. In 2007, a medical research team revealed strong evidence that they’ve found that animal: chickens.
The interdisciplinary team from Rush University Medical Center, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana [...]

CIVCO Transducer Covers Aid in Dolphin Studies

In 2001, Jack and Donna Kassewitz founded the Miami-based Speak Dolphin Research Project. Speak Dolphin researches dolphin communication in multiple ways, including annual research expeditions to work with dolphins in their natural environment. Recently, Jack contacted CIVCO for a sample of our 610-015 transducer cover. During a routine conversation, Matt Mitchell, CIVCO Inside Sales Representative, [...]

Equine Diagnostic Imaging in Three Advanced Modalities

Dr. Mathieu Spriet, Assistant Professor of Clinical Diagnostic Imaging at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, specializes in magnetic resonance imaging in horses. Here, he presents three recent case studies, spotlighting three different imaging techniques: scintigraphy, computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Advanced Imaging in the Horse
Radiography and ultrasound are commonly used [...]