- Grading and Max Credits: Graduate Catalog Info VME6579
VME 6579
CREDITS: 3
Course Description
Students completing this course will gain an understanding of how radiology and imaging can be used in the veterinary forensic sciences. Topics include: imaging modalities, the performance, interpretation and reportage of veterinary imaging studies as applied to the courts or the law.
Topics
- Week 1 Introduction to Forensic Radiology & Imaging
- Scope, Definitions and Forensic Radiology Compared to Clinical Radiology
- Course Introductions
- Week 2 : The Radiographic & Imaging Report Preparing and Testifying in Court
- Quiz 1
- Discussion 1
- Week 3: Production of the Radiographic Image, Equipment and Radiation Protection
- Quiz 2
- Discussion 2
- Writing assignment 1
- Week 4: Radiographic Positioning & Marking Systems Principles of Radiographic & Imaging Interpretation
- Quiz 3
- Discussion 3
- Week 5: Virtual Imaging: The use of CT & MR in Veterinary Forensic Imaging
- Quiz 4
- Discussion 4
- Week 6: The Use of Ultrasound, Nuclear scintigraphy and Contrast in Veterinary Forensic Imaging
- Quiz 5
- Discussion 5
- Week 7: Use of Imaging in Identification and Age Determination
- Quiz 6
- Discussion 6
- Writing assignment 2
- Week 8: Veterinary Radiology and Imaging of Abuse
- Quiz 7
- Discussion 7
- Week 9: Radiographic Description of Osseous Trauma & Assessing and Aging Bone Response to Trauma
- Quiz 8
- Discussion 8
- Week 10: Forensic Veterinary Radiology and Imaging of Gunshot Wounds
- Quiz 9
- Discussion 9
- Week 11: Anatomic areas of particular interest in forensic Imaging: ribs, skull, physes
- Quiz 10
- Discussion 10
- Writing assignment 3
- Week 12 : Post mortem Imaging and the Role of Imaging in Cause of Death Determinations
- Quiz 11
- Discussion 11
- Week 13: Differentials in Veterinary Forensic Imaging Diseases which may Mimic Abuse
- Quiz 12
- Discussion 12
- Week 14: Review
- Writing assignment 4
- Week 15: Final Examination