Anatomy or Abnormality? Mastering Small Animal Pulmonary Radiographs

Join Radimal’s RACE-approved webinar on thoracic radiographs – boost your skills, see real cases, and earn CE credit!

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The challenge of pulmonary radiography often begins with a simple question: what is normal? Join this CE webinar to make sense of those “busy” lungs on thoracic radiographs!

You pull up a thoracic radiograph and the lungs look “busy” – is that a pulmonary nodule, or just an end-on vessel? Pulmonary radiographs can be deceptively tricky because even a subtle change in opacity can blur the line between anatomy and pathology.

This Session: Anatomy or Abnormality? Mastering Small Animal Pulmonary Radiographs

Date: Thursday, June 4

Time: 8 p.m. ET

In this CE webinar, you’ll build a practical approach to interpreting small animal pulmonary radiographs. We’ll review what normal lungs should look like, how image quality affects interpretation, and how to recognize the key pulmonary patterns that signal disease.

Through real imaging examples, you’ll see how clues like air bronchograms, lesion persistence, and pattern distribution help you interpret lung changes and narrow your differential diagnoses.

If thoracic radiographs sometimes leave you second-guessing what you’re seeing, this session will help you read lung images with greater clarity and confidence.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the normal radiographic anatomy of the canine and feline pulmonary lobes and associated thoracic structures.
  • Explain how radiographic principles, such as superimposition, border effacement, and respiratory phase, affect pulmonary interpretation.
  • Explore how to obtain diagnostic quality thoracic radiographs.
  • Differentiate major pulmonary radiographic patterns based on their characteristic imaging features.
  • Analyze thoracic radiographs using a systematic approach to identify primary pulmonary patterns and relevant ancillary findings.
  • Apply pattern recognition and lesion distribution to generate appropriate differential diagnoses for common pulmonary diseases.

This program has been RACE approved (20-1372682) for 1 hour of continuing education credit for veterinarians and veterinary technicians/technologists in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.

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Speaker

  • Kreig Embriano, VMD, MS, DACVR

    Dr. Kreig Embriano grew up in New England and received his Bachelor of Science at the University of Connecticut, followed by his veterinary degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His post-veterinary training includes a rotating small animal internship, a diagnostic imaging internship, a part-time diagnostic imaging externship, and two years of small animal emergency medicine and surgery.

    He graduated with a Master of Science and completed a radiology residency at Auburn University in 2022. Dr. Embriano and his wife have a busy life with five cats and a focus on traveling, soccer, biking, podcasts, and tasty cuisine.