Diagnostic Imaging
Robert L. Toal, Jr., DVM, DACVR
Cynthia Sloan, DVM, DACVR
Matthew Nelson, DVM, DACVR
Welcome to VCA SouthPaws Veterinary Specialists & Emergency Center's Diagnostic Imaging Department.
With three board-certified radiologists working exclusively from this location, and a full complement of imaging systems, our radiology department is the best-staffed one in this area, allowing us to provide the most complete and comprehensive imaging for anatomy and function available.
Our diagnostic imaging services include:
- Ultrasonography (abdominal, thoracic, soft tissue)
- Ultrasound guided needle aspirates and biopsies
- Digital radiology (standard xray and contrast procedures)
- Digital fluoroscopy (moving or 'live-action' radiographic studies)
- 2D/3D spiral CT scanning
Services Offered in Diagnostic Imaging
- Echocardiography
- Blood chemistry analyzer
- Coagulation analyzer
- Hematology analyzer
- In-house STAT laboratory
- Abdominal ultrasonography-abdominocentesis and cystocentesis
- Thoracic ultrasonography / thoracocentesis
- Computed Tomography (CT scanning)
- Digital radiography
- Doppler ultrasound studies
- Fluoroscopy
- Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration
- Ultrasound-guided biopsy
- Ultrasonography
- Direct blood pressure monitoring
- Abdominocentesis
- Thoracocentesis
- Angiography
- Vascular and airway foreign body removal
- Myelography
- Spinal radiography and fluoroscopy
- CT scan (brain, bullae, skull, spine)


