Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread

"Against their will" made me chuckle

How long does something need to stay still for a CT scan and can you send water through, just thinking about aquatic animals if you could just send the tank through.
Looking at my axolotl who can happily sit there not moving for hours in the hope of ambushing prey, staying still should be easy enough.
- Depends what imaging technique they're using. X-ray CT might work ok with a little water in the way. Nuclear magnetic resonance might not be so good.
- On OkCupid, I once briefly courted a woman with the username "RazeTheAxolotl." One of my opening questions was whether she meant "raise" or "raze." She meant "raise."
  I don't think asking that helped with my chances. We didn't end up going on any dates.

I don't think animals are ever okay getting CT scanned

tomorrow is monday again, folks
- 20 ccs of lasagna, stat!

This made me smile! I love it 😀

Burrito

Ok, now do animals being tortured and murdered against their will. Much much bigger photoset.

Interesting.
Did you take these pictures, or could you mention their source? I want to make sure the author(s) get credit.
- Got no serious answer, so here are some results based on reverse image search:
  Rhinoceros. Credit: Chicago Zoological Society. Possible source: Black Rhinoceros Undergoes Portable CT Scan At Brookfield Zoo
  Bear. Credit: Kimberly Fornek / Pioneer Press. Possible source: Brookfield Zoo CT scan
  Humsters. Credit: unknown.
  Alligator. Credit: UF College of Veterinary Medicine. Possible source: Massive sick alligator given CT scan at University of Florida
  Feel free to add more in your replies if you have time to search.
  Dear, @fossilesque@mander.xyz please credit the authors and/or sources of the picture you're posting. Those most likely aren't public domain, meaning credit is required (and possibly more). Also citing the source provide interesting background on the pictures.
- The author is my mom

I have a feeling, most of those are MRT and not CT
- MRT machines are much larger than the devices shown here.

This feels like the equivalent of getting abducted by a superintelligent alien race, being put into a machine beyond your wildest comprehension, and then probably getting a treat and sent back home where nobody will believe you

The mice got a nice pillow

I’m sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog 😂
- I love how it's just taped down with like masking tape lol
  
  Otherwise he’d be moving so fast the blueshift would be visibly noticeable
- MOISTURISE ME
- why are they MRI-ing a filet? :3
- One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients can’t directly communicate. Oftentimes, issues go unnoticed simply because the animal masks things like pain. Luckily, the vet immediately knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.
- Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
- Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.
  
  Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.
- "That's it I'm taping you down!"
- The bdsm community is leaking.
  No pun intended btw.
  
  Wearing a surgical drain is brave all on its own, but that makes me extra inspired!
- It's also the only one that's an Xray instead of a CT
- Poor Blaze doing his checkup 🤭

funny sad fact, if a person weigh 600 or more lbs, they sometimes have to use xrays/ct/mri in the zoos that are meant for larger animals.
- This happened in Scrubs.
- No shit, I once had the chance to accompany a patient to an large aninmal hospital for an MRI.
  The problem: It was so far away that the patient needed to be airlifted. Which was far beyond the capacity of regular HEMS. So they called in the military and they send a fucking CH-53 cargo helicopter. These things are huge and loud. But cool.
  That was one interesting ride. Somewhat embarrassing for the patient (who was not in on weight level due to simply eating too much - patient had a massive and life altering orphan hormonal disease) but patient kept somewhat good spirits and the volunteer fire brigade did a good job blocking the view.
  Nowadays human medicine has improved - you can now simply use an open MRI with specialised gurneys. They usually can take more than 400kg, sometimes 500kg.
  
  Does a larger MRI produce more data than a smaller one (same data density over a larger volume), or is it the same resolution spread out over a larger space?
- Obviously we should have bigger radiology machines. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to have them where you have a substantial fat population.
  
  It would probably be wiser to focus on healthcare access and nutrition than to make extremely expensive and already large pieces of equipment triple size as standard when alternatives already exist.
  
  And for multiperson scanning of compatible patients in a dramatically more cancerous pandemic-affected modern cohort with dwindling hospital infrastructure! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ
- I had a patient tell me he had to go to a zoo for an MRI. I thought it was a self deprecating joke but he was serious.
- I learned this from Scrubs

Stopped asking those pesky questions now didn't it?
- Peace is finally an option.
- Stopped asking those pesky questions about what?!?
  
  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/goose-chasing-guy
  
  Grapes

My favorite is definitely that poor hedgehog, LOL
- Mine are the snake and the taped bird
  
  They really just folded that snake up
  
  The dolphin sent me.
- That one made me laugh as well. I never knew they had such... unflattering (yet flat!) bodies.

Are we the bad guys?
- If you need to ask...

Do we also get a thread of pictures of animals getting CT scans with their consent?
- I hate to read any post on the internet that involves both the words "animal" and "consent."
  Human beings are inexplicable, contradictory species that don't know how to view the world through anything other than our momentary feelings about things, and the universe suffers for it.
- We need higher res photo of Steven the fish
  
  Somehow I don’t think the fish consented to this..
  
  Thanks for sharing. How does the fish one work? The dolphin I get because it breathes oxygen, but don’t all fish have gills? I feel like it should be in the water.
  
  Some of those seem to have consented after being forced to.

The hamster burritos got me good.

A fucking rhino!?
How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?
- I’m guessing they would have some sort of overhead crane to do the heavy lifting

The snake got me laughing. They just folded it onto itself.

What don't Samsung make?
- Good phones 🙄

Why couldn't that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck
- The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here's the context.
  CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it's just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.
  
  hehe
  Random mirror linker btw:
  https://farside.link/https://www.reddit.com/r/VetTech/comments/1ge3kh0/modern_art
- Birds have very delicate air sacs. For small birds like that constricting them can seriously damage them and cause issues breathing.
  
  I think they lack a diaphragm. It was weird reading in my cockatiel care books that some handling on the neck was fine, but even small pressure to their chest could prevent them from breathing.
- Gotta get the wings spread.

I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to intubate those animals.
- Actually most of them (according to a friend who works for a large animal hospital and has some human EMS background) are intubated far easier than humans - and they place a "hand safer" device (if you're old enough to remember the "plastic screw device"-I don't actually remember the actual name- used to open a seizure patients jaw that were once used, they are similar).
  Back in my training day we used cats to practice neonatal intubation.
- I actually would love to be the one to intubate them!

There's definitely two kinds
Ima napping
You think this is funny? This cell won't hold me forever. And once I'm free, you will all regret it

Love how the bird is still smiling
Thanks so much for sharing!

that goose is gonna kill some mfs when it wakes up

they did surgery on a grape!

Amazing post

The only thing animals should be forced to do!

A... giraffe? Are they alive?
- Yeah, they’re usually found in the grasslands of Africa and a few other places in the world in addition to zoos and such.
  
  I mean giraffe from the photo.
  Or it's just a head with neck 👀