INTRODUCTION This reading list is meant to serve as a helpful guide for candidates in learning the topics presented in the ECVDI written board objectives and in preparing the oral examination. Examination questions will be based on the board objectives. The titles in bold are personal recommendations by a few residents who are currently preparing for the examination, or who have just sat the examination. Feedback to the about the value of the listed books, or about additional useful books is very welcome. TEXTBOOKS Physics of diagnostic imaging Bushberg JT, Seibert JA, Leidholdt EM, Boone JM. The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging.

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Williams & Wilkins, Second Edition, 2002. Curry TS, Dowdey JE, Murry RC. Christensen's Physics of Radiology. Lea & Febiger 1990.

Review of Radiologic Physics. 3 rd edition, Lippincott 2003. Sonography: principles and instruments. Saunders 2010. Nuclear medicine physics, instrumentation and agents. Louis: Mosby Co, 1977.

Westbrook C., Kaut Roth C., Talbot J. MRI in Practice, 3 rdedition, Blackwell 2006. Anatomy (including radiographic, CT and MRI anatomy) Pertinent information will be obtained from the standard anatomy texts, namely Miller’s Anatomy of the Dog, Sisson and Grossman’s Anatomy of Domestic Animals. Note should be made of articles in Vet Radiol & Ultrasound relating to positioning and postural influences on the radiographic appearance of the body, cross-sectional (transverse) anatomy of the canine skull, thorax and abdomen. Assheuer J, Sager M.

MRI and CT Atlas of the dog. Blackwell Wissenschaft Berlin, Vienna 1997. Denoix JM The equine distal limb. Manson Publishing 2000. Dyce, Sack, Wensing, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy, Saunders Coulson A Lewis N An atlas of interpretative anatomy of the dog and cat. Blackwell Science 2002. Feeney DA, Fletcher TF, Hardy RM.

Atlas of correlative imaging anatomy of the normal dog. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1991. Pasquini C, Spurgeon T, Pasquini S. Anatomy of Domestic Animals.

Sudz publishing. Not a reference anatomy book but a good clinical, radiological, practical anatomy book, very easy to read with lots of humour which helps memorize. Schebiz H, Wilkens H. Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy of the Horse. Paul Parey, 1986. Schebitz H, Wilkens H. Atlas of radiographic anatomy of the dog and cat, 4th edition.

Berlin: Paul Parey, 1986. Thrall D, Robertson I.

Atlas of normal radiographic anatomy and anatomic variants in the dog and cat. Elsevier, 2010. Physiology/Pathophysiology A clinically-oriented general physiology text should be consulted for a basic understanding of cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, central nervous, musculoskeletal, respiratory and urogenital physiology, for example: Cunningham JG. Textbook of veterinary physiology, 3rd edition, Phialdelphia, Saunders, 2002.

Canine and feline cardiology, New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1992 for cardiovascular physiology/pathophysiology. Review of medical physiology, 13th edition.

Norwalk, CT: Appelton & Lange, 1987. Textbook of medical physiology.

Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co, 1981. Radiography and radiology Radiography Morgan JP. Techniques of Veterinary Radiography. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993. Radiographic artifacts: their cause and control. Philadelphia; JB Lippincott. The Handbook of Veterinary Contrast Radiography.

San Diego Veterinary Imaging Inc. Radiology Bargai U, Pharr JW, Morgan JP. Bovine Radiology. Iowa State press 1989. ISBN: 0-8138-0185-0. Barr FJ, Kirberger RM.

BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Musculoskeletal Imaging. BSAVA Publications 2006. ISBN: 10 0 905214 86 3. Burk RI, Ackerman N. Small animal radiology and ultrasonography.

Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 1996. Butler JA, Colles CM, Dyson SJ, Kold SE, Poulos PW. Clinical Radiology of the Horse. 3rd ed Blackwell Science 2008.

Deforge DH, Colmery BH An atlas of veterinary dental radiology. Iowa State University Press, 2000. Dennis R, Kirberger RM, Wrigley RH, Barr FJ. Handbook of Small Animal Radiology and Ultrasound, Techniques and Differential Diagnoses. 2 nd edition. Philadelphia, W.B.

Saunders Co., 2010. Dik KJ, Gunsser I. Atlas of Diagnostic Radiology of the Horse, Part 1: Diseases of the front limb, Part 2: Diseases of the hind limb, Part 3: Diseases of the head, neck and thorax. Wolfe Publishing Ltd, 1987-1990.

Farrow CS Radiology of the cat. St Louis Mosby 1994. Kealy JK, McAllister H. Diagnostic radiology and ultrasonography of the dog and cat.

Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 2000. Morgan JP, Leighton RL. Radiology of small animal fracture management. Philadelphia, W.B.

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Saunders Co., 1995. O'Brien R., Barr F. BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Abdominal Imaging.

Radiographic Diagnosis of Abdominal Disorders in the Dog and Cat: radiographic interpretation, clinical signs, pathophysiology. Philadelphia, W.B.

Saunders Co., 1981. O'Brien's Radiology for the Equine Ambulatory Practitioner. Teton Newmedia 2005. Rubel GA, Isenbugel E, Wolvekamp P. Atlas of diagnostic radiology of exotic pets.

Wolfe Publishing Limited, 1991. Radiology of Birds, An Atlas of Normal Anatomy and Positioning. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 2010 Schwarz, Johnson. BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Thoracic Imaging. Thoracic Radiography of the dog and cat.

Ed PF Suter 1984. Textbook of veterinary diagnostic radiology, 5th edition. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 2007.New edition to follow soon (2011). Ultrasonography (including echocardiography) Barr FJ., Gaschen L.

BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Ultrasonography. Manual of Veterinary Echocardiography. Williams & Wilkins 2011. Burk R.I., Ackerman N. Small animal radiology and ultrasonography.

Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 1996. Dik KJ Comparative ultrasonographic imaging of equine lameness. Hannover, 1998. Nyland TG, Mattoon JS.

Small animal diagnostic ultrasound 2nd ed. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 2002. Nyland TG, Mattoon JS. Veterinary Diagnostic Ultrasound.

Saunders 1995. This is the old edition of the previous book, but contains some equine ultrasonography. Penninck, D, D’Anjou M.-A. Atlas of Small Animal Ultrasonography. Blackwell 2008. Poulsen Nautrup C. Atlas and textbook of diagnostic ultrasonography in the dog and cat.

Rantanen NW, McKinnon Equine Diagnostic Ultrasonography Williams & Wilkins 1998 Reef V. Equine Diagnostic Ultrasound.

Saunders, 1998. Altlas of equine ultrasonography. Schwarz T., Johnson V. BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Thoracic Imaging.

Cross-sectional echocardiography. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1985. Computed Tomography / Magnetic Resonance Imaging Elliott I., Skerritt G. Handbook or Small Animal MRI. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Gavin PR., Bagley RS.

Practical Small Animal MRI. Wiley-Blackwell 2009. Schwarz T., Saunders J. Veterinary Computed Tomography. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Nuclear medicine Berry CR, Daniel GB. Handbook of Veterinary Nuclear Medicine. North Carolina State University, 1996. ISBN: 0-9651794-0-0. This book can be ordered directly from Dr Berry (email is This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Introductory physics of nuclear medicine, 3rd edition. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1987. S J Dyson et al.

Equine Scintigraphy. Printed bty Equine Veterinary Journal 2003 ISBN 0-9545689-0-7 Erickson JJ, Rollo FD. Digital nuclear medicine. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Co, 1983. Parker RP, Smith PHS, Taylor DM.

Basic science of nuclear medicine. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1984. Rollo FD (Ed). Nuclear medicine physics, instrumentation, and agents.

Louis: CV Mosby co, 1977 Radiobiology and radiotherapy Hall EJ. Radiobiology for the radiologist, 4th edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1994.

The physics of radiation therapy. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1984 Miscellaneous This sections includes 'non diagnostic imaging' reference books which may be useful to the candidate to get the necessary level of knowledge in fields of the veterinary medicine complementary to diagnostic imaging.

Small animal Bojrab MJ (ed) Disease mechanisms in small animal surgery, 2nd edition. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1993 Darke PGG, Bonagura JD, Kelly DF, Color atlas of veterinary cardiology. London: Mosby-Wolfe, 1995.

Ettinger J.S. Textbook of veterinary internal medicine. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders Co., 2001.

Canine and feline cardiology, New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1988 Guilford W. Et al, Strombeck`s Small Animal Gastroenteology, 3rd edition Philadelphia W.B. Saunders 1996 Hoskins JD.

Veterinary pediatrics: dogs and cats from birth to 6 months, 3rd edition Philadelphia, Saunders, 2001. Cancer in dogs and cats: medical and surgical management.

Baltimore, Williams&Wilkins, 1998. Nelson R.W., Couto G.C. Small animal internal medicine. Louis, Mosby, 1998. Equine Ross MW, Dyson SJ. Diagnosis and Management of Lameness in Horses. Saunders, 2011.

Adams’ Lameness in Horses. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011. Equine internal medicine 3rd edition Elsevier 2010.

Large animal internal medicine 4 th edition Elsevier 2009. Auer & Stick, Equine surgery, 3 rd edition, Elsevier 2006. A 4 th edition is about to come out.

Neurology (small and large animal) DeLahunta A. Veterinary neuroanatomy and clinical neurology, 2nd edition.

Philadelphia: WB Saunders Co, 1983. Oliver JE, Hoerlein BF, Mayhew IG. Veterinary neurology. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1987.

JOURNALS All candidates should be familiar with Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound.

Twenty-one limbs of bovine cadavers (42 digits) were exposed to interdigital cassetteless imaging plate using computed radiography. The radiographic findings included exostosis, a rough planta surface, osteolysis of the apex of the distal phalanx and widening of the laminar zone between the distal phalanx and the hoof wall. All these findings were confirmed by computed tomography. The hindlimbs (19 digits) showed more changes than the forelimbs (10 digits), particularly in the lateral distal phalanx.

The cassetteless computed radiography technique is expected to be an easily applicable method for the distal phalanx rather than a conventional cassette-plate and/or the film-screen cassetteless methods. Bovine lameness has major financial implications for farmers. Lameness causes direct and indirect losses through decreased milk yield, decreased fertility and increased treatment costs. Therefore, reducing the incidence of lameness will bring substantial benefits to farmers and improve animal production. Surveys have revealed that most (90%) lameness problems involve claws, regardless of breed, use and stabling. Early detection of abnormal changes allows for appropriate treatment and may prevent the lameness from becoming a chronic problem that could affect the welfare and productivity of the animal. Conventional cassette-plate radiographs of bovine digits have been used for years ,.

However, the conventional cassette-plate is too thick to insert in the interdigital space, resulting in superimposition of the lateral and medial digits in the lateral view. Sab tv serial love story all mp3 song download. The cassetteless imaging plate (IP) is thin and can thus be easily inserted in the interdigital space, and subsequent imaging reveals the individual details of each medial and lateral digit unless they are superimposed.

Computed radiography (CR) was developed by Fuji Film (Tokyo, Japan) and has been in use since the 1980s. The basic components of this system include an IP for acquiring the image, a device to read the IP, an analog to digital converter and a computer and software to process the digitized image. The first step with CR is image acquisition, and a standard X-ray exposure of the patient is made. A flexible IP containing photosensitive phosphors is used for image capture. Photosensitive phosphors have a complex crystalline structure containing halogens and activators. Following X-ray exposure, the flourohalide and activator act together to capture a latent image.

Electrons in the crystalline phosphor are exitted to a higher energy level where they are trapped at various sites in the phosphor. Then, the latent image is processed by the reader. The present study was designed to evaluate the interdigital cassetteless technique using CR. Twenty-one limbs (42 digits) of Holstein and Japanese Black cows (10 forelimbs and 11 hindlimbs) of different ages were randomly obtained from animals slaughtered at the local abattoir in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan. Cassetteless CR was performed with a 70 kVp, 2.0 mAs radiography unit (Hitachi Sirius 125A, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) with a 70 cm focal film distance.

IPs (25.2 × 30.3 cm, 100 g, Fuji film, Tokyo, Japan) were taken out from the imaging cassette (Fuji IP Cassette Type CC, Fuji Film) used in CR and covered by a commercially available hard black plastic bag (Heiko, Tokyo, Japan). The appearance of IP is shown in Dorsopalmar/dorsoplantar, interdigital, medial and lateral radiographs were visualized using a CR system (FCR CAPSULA-2V, Fuji Film). Computed tomography (CT) was performed to confirm the radiographic findings (Asteion Super 4, Toshiba, Tokyo, Japan), and sagittal images of the digits were reconstructed. The acquisition settings were 135 kV and 250 mA with a 1.0 mm slice thickness. The Virtual Place Advance workstation (AZE Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) was used to view images and select optimal windows for structures of different densities. The appearance of cassetteless method of a imaging plate and a commercially available hard black plastic bag. Twenty-five radiographic abnormal findings of 42 digits (21 limbs, lateral and medial) and 29 CT findings from 42 digits were obtained.

Most of the radiographic findings were consistent with the CT findings, except for the enthesophytes of the extensor digiti minimi insertion (4 digits), because interdigital technique is sufficient for the distal phalanx, but not for the medial phalanx. This is an anatomical limitation of the extensor digiti minimi insertion, which locates proximal to extensor process of distal phalanx.

The radiographic findings of the distal phalanx included exostosis (, ), a rough planta surface , osteolysis of the apex of the distal phalanx and widening of the laminar zone in the dorsal surface between the distal phalanx and the hoof wall. The cassetteless technique is considered as an advantage over the conventional cassette-plate because of the thin imaging plate, which can be easily inserted in the interdigital space. Furthermore, film-screen radiography is often overexposed/underexposed when taken at a farm site because of improper imaging techniques, which in turn affects imaging quality of the radiograph. Therefore, the film-screen method has not been widely used at farm animal clinics. However, CR is not dependent on the imaging technique, because the technology compensates for improper exposure and focal film distance.

Improved contrast resolution and computer digital reformatting make it a valuable alternative technique to the film-screen method. Furthermore, the CR does not require a dark room and thus facilitates X-ray examinations at the farm animal clinic. While, there is a disadvantage of cassetteless technique.

IP is not covered by hard cassette and therefore may be fragile. Handling IP should be careful, especially in the field.

Interdigital computed radiography (a) showing widening of the laminar zone in the dorsal surface between the distal phalanx and the hoof wall (.) and a sagittal computed tomography (b, WW: 1600, WL: 377). In our study, the hindlimbs (19 digits) showed more CT changes than the forelimbs (10 digits). The lateral digits (17 digits) were more affected than the medial digits (12 digits), particularly in the hindlimbs.

These results were consistent with a previous report. Higher incidence of disorders in the hindlimb than in the forelimb, because of greater exposure of the hind hooves to a dirty environment; furthermore, the hindlimbs are more susceptible to disorders, because of the size and weight of the udder ,. The lateral digits showed a higher prevalence of severe radiographic changes than the medial digits, particularly in the hindlimbs. The causes of overload and predisposition of the lateral hind hooves to disease are poorly understood. Even after trimming, the cow’s weight is not evenly distributed between the hindlimb hooves; thus, the lateral hooves carry considerably more weight than the medial hooves. The lateral hooves of the hindlimbs may present particular anatomical characteristics that predispose them to chronic overload and disease. We believe that the cassetteless CR technique may be an easily applicable method for imaging of the distal phalanx compared with the conventional cassette-plate and/or film-screen cassetteless method.

A clinical trial should be the next step.