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Clinical perspectives, magnet physics, and the economics of imaging in veterinary practice.

Clinical Insight

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.

27 Aug 2026 · 3 min read

Planned
Practice Economics

What advanced imaging actually costs a four-vet practice

The referral model, the per-study model, and the arithmetic that separates them.

Planned
Clinical Insight

The cases that never get imaged

What happens to the patient after a client declines a $3,000 referral, and how often it happens.

Planned
Technology

Low field and the image quality question, answered honestly

Where 0.05T is diagnostic, where it is not, and why the boundary keeps moving.

Planned
Anaesthesia

Anaesthesia and the in-clinic scan

Why immobility is non-negotiable, what an open architecture changes about monitoring, and how episode length compares with referral.

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.