UK's first thermal imaging service for pets
An Oxford woman has launched Veterinary Thermal Imaging Ltd , a company which claims to be the first in the UK to use thermal imaging to help identify and monitor injury and illness in domestic pets. Helen Morrell, 34, uses an FLIR infrared camera to detect physiological changes in animals. She says the technique is traditionally only used in top competition and racing stables, and can highlight health problems, including tendon, joint and nerve damage, which would otherwise be undetectable without invasive and expensive procedures such as x-rays and MRI scans. Helen said: "I became interested...