title: Pilot study of bovine interdigital cassetteless computed radiography.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Obihiro, Hokkaido, 080-8555, Japan.
authors.forename: El-Sayed Ahmed Awad
authors.initials: el-SA
authors.lastname: El-Shafaey
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: Mitsuo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: Kazutaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000502:physiology*; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005552:Forelimb / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006614:Hindlimb / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006724:Hoof and Claw / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007794:Lameness, Animal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011859:Radiography