The basics of an ultrasound exam
Machine settings, probe handling, image formation.
You are a veterinary student, intern, resident, technician, practitioner or specialist ready to discover, undertake or master this great imaging modality for the benefit of the dogs and cats you’ve trained so hard to treat. Well, this is it — the place to learn small animal ultrasonography, case by case, at your own pace.
This is not only the companion website for the Atlas of Small Animal Ultrasonography, 2nd and 3rd Editions, but a broader eLearning platform that offers 2-year memberships to access hundreds of videos covering everything you need to know to undertake ultrasound in your practice, or to expand your knowledge. Once subscribed, you can search through the entire collection using keywords to quickly find the information you’re looking for.
Machine settings, probe handling, image formation.
What normal structures look like on ultrasound.
Common and uncommon findings, from head to toe.
$50 · for anyone new to the modality.
Included in the same $50 package · a detailed review of the anatomy of the abdomen.
$350 · everything, including the abdomen and the heart. Head and neck, thorax or MSK and neuro are also sold on their own, from $40.
The third edition was born from the collaboration of 24 international authors who share the same passion for small animal ultrasonography.
The printed copy carries a password to the companion videos. Once it is redeemed, the PREMIUM video membership costs $100 less.
The Book


A broader eLearning platform offering 2-year access to hundreds of annotated videos covering everything you need to undertake ultrasound in your practice, or to expand your knowledge. Once subscribed, search the entire collection by keyword.
PREMIUM (2 years), $350. Or buy by section, from $40. New content is added regularly.
See the membershipsEnhance your knowledge through these exercises, published as Time to Play exercises and case notes, with answers usually posted within a week. Several topics are discussed in these annotated clips, complementing the notions covered in the rest of our video collection.
A new challenge published regularly as a Time to Play exercise. The answer within a week.
Explore Time to PlayNew Time to Play exercises and case notes are published regularly — follow our Facebook page to keep up.
Follow us on FacebookTwo board-certified veterinary radiologists who have spent their careers teaching this modality — and who wrote the Atlas the collection is built around.

DVM, PhD · Dipl. ACVR, ECVDI
Professor in Diagnostic Imaging, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts
Dominique Penninck graduated from the Veterinary school at the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1981. After a residency at University of Davis, California, she joined the radiologist team at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University. She has been invested in teaching ultrasonography to students, interns, residents, and practicing veterinarians, adopting and developing new methodologies to facilitate the learning of this modality.

DMV, Dipl. ACVR
Co-founder of Animages, former Professor at Université de Montréal
Marc-André d’Anjou became veterinarian in 1996, graduating from the University of Montreal, before completing a residency program in diagnostic imaging at Tufts University leading to his board-certification from the American College of Veterinary Radiology in 2003. He was faculty at the University of Montreal for 10 years before founding Animages in 2016, creating eLearning environments for small animal diagnostic imaging.
Their full biographies and publications are on the About us page.
The practical details of memberships, payments and playback.
Your account and your membership came with you to this new website: there is nothing to buy again. On the sign-in page, enter the email address or the username you used before, leave the password empty and press “Email me a sign-in link”. We send you a link and a 6-digit code — no password needed, and you can add one later from your account. If nothing arrives within a few minutes, check your spam folder, or write to us and we will find your account.
A 2-year, single-user membership covering our entire collection of 225 videos: the basic concepts of the ultrasound exam, the normal abdomen with 3D animations, and annotated videos on the normal anatomy and pathologies of the head and neck, the thorax and heart, the abdomen and the musculoskeletal system, plus a section on Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS). The 139 videos that come with the Atlas of Small Animal Ultrasonography are included — many of them updated — and the membership also opens our archive of 40 Time to Play exercises.
86 additional videos were created beyond the Atlas collection: other examples of common pathologies, uncommon ones not yet discussed, 3D animations with voice-over explaining the normal anatomy, and videos on important tools such as Doppler. The membership platform also lets you search the whole database to quickly find videos on a specific topic — pancreatitis, for example.
Yes. To account for the videos already provided with the book, the PREMIUM membership costs US$100 less for readers of the Atlas. Enter the password printed in your book and the discount is applied automatically at checkout — there is nothing to send us. We still love to see how you use the Atlas: send us a picture and it may join our Hall of Fans.
Yes — 50% on all video memberships. After subscribing, send us a message and we will reply asking for a photo of your valid student ID. If you used a discount code when subscribing, the credit is adjusted from the regular price.
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Streaming the videos requires high-speed internet or a smartphone data network — ideally a broadband connection. The videos run smoothly on any relatively fast connection.
Yes. All our videos play on iPhone, iPad and any other type of smartphone or tablet.
Streaming adapts to your connection, but some videos can lag if your bandwidth is insufficient. Also check the description of each video: some are annotated without sound, while others — the normal abdomen series, for example — are narrated.
Each membership is valid for 2 years, starting at the time of payment.
Pausing is not possible.
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Yes — we offer discounts on the purchase of multiple subscriptions for your staff, colleagues or students. Send us a message for any inquiry on that matter.
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