Vetomica Imaging · CT · Head
The skull in CT, slice by slice.
Real CT scans you scroll through in three planes. Start with normal skulls of four head shapes and a cat, then a head-trauma case beside them.
Head trauma, Yorkshire Terrier
Depressed fractures of the frontal and parietal bones, a large scalp haematoma, and a left cerebral contusion, eleven days after injury. Switch to the brain window to see the contusion, the bone window for the fractures.
Normal skulls
Dry skulls, so bone only. Head shape changes almost everything you measure on a head CT: compare a brachycephalic Pug with a dolichocephalic Greyhound before reading any one dog.
Skulls: Czeibert K. et al. (2024), High-resolution computed tomographic image series from 413 canid and 18 felid skulls, Scientific Data. CC0. Dataset.
Trauma case: CT and MRI scan of a 2-year-old male Yorkshire Terrier, Figshare. CC BY 4.0. Dataset.
Converted to web images. The trauma CT was reconstructed for bone; its brain and soft-tissue views are smoothed and centred on this scanner's measured brain values so the soft tissue can be read. For learning: not a diagnostic service.