Elite equine sport lives and dies on soundness. Behind every horse at the Games is a care team making thousands of small, careful decisions — and increasingly, those decisions rest on imaging that used to be impossible to obtain outside a hospital.
Dr. Cardenas' journey is a reminder that leadership in veterinary medicine is often quiet: knowing when to push, and when to follow the evidence in front of you.
Imaging that travels to the patient
Standing equine CT — the kind the Pegaso platform makes possible — changed what a travelling care team can do. Instead of shipping a horse to a distant hospital and risking anaesthesia, clinicians can image the head and neck of a standing, sedated athlete and read the study on the spot.
The software matters as much as the scanner. Motion-tolerant reconstruction, fast review and cloud sharing mean a specialist half a world away can weigh in before the horse leaves the barn.
Leading and following
Great clinicians know the difference. They lead when experience demands it, and they follow when the imaging tells a clearer story than intuition. Epica builds software for exactly that moment — putting the clearest possible picture in front of the people making the call.
Want the clinical detail? Read our imaging case reviews on meningioma and OSA with pathological fracture.
Building imaging software for a care team?
From standing CT to cloud review, we build the tools clinicians trust in the field.