💡AMAZING Scintigraphy (Nuclear Medicine) 👉🏻Scintigraphy allows us to obtain an overview of the entire skeleton of the horse (bone scan). Focally increased uptake of the radioactive substance or ‘hotspots’, highlight areas of increased bone metabolism. 👉🏻This can be seen with osteoarthritic changes, local inflammation, infection or other bony lesions (such as bone oedema, fractures and cysts). Scintigraphy is performed on the standing sedated horse, but requires several days of hospitalisati