Why a dog waits three weeks for an MRI
The scan takes forty minutes. The other twenty days and twenty-three hours are queueing — and the queue has a structure worth understanding.
Field notes
Clinical perspectives, magnet physics, and the economics of imaging in veterinary practice.
The scan takes forty minutes. The other twenty days and twenty-three hours are queueing — and the queue has a structure worth understanding.
The referral model, the per-study model, and the arithmetic that separates them.
What happens to the patient after a client declines a $3,000 referral, and how often it happens.
Where 0.05T is diagnostic, where it is not, and why the boundary keeps moving.
Why immobility is non-negotiable, what an open architecture changes about monitoring, and how episode length compares with referral.
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Development-stage veterinary device. The AgileVet configuration is in development. It is not currently available for sale, and the capabilities, specifications, scan times and economics described on this site are design goals rather than measured performance on veterinary patients. Low-field MRI does not reproduce the image quality of a 1.5T or 3T system, and no diagnostic equivalence to high-field MRI is claimed or implied. Core patent recently allowed worldwide; other patents pending. © 2026 Agile MRI Ltd.