Feb 12, 2020 | Nerd Corner
If you use the Metron Calibration Block and carefully take good images, Metron can create a very accurate overlay ‘combo’ image. This can be very helpful as a veterinarian or farrier to show your clients more about their horse’s hooves. Helps visualize a...
Feb 8, 2020 | Nerd Corner
Metron software measures the ‘Palmar Angle’ on a lateral hoof radiograph (among other measures). For a given x-ray generator, and using the Metron Block on a flat floor, the main source of misalignment is due to the alignment of the block + hoof when the...
Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Nerd Corner
An HD video camera on a drone, and a horse that is not spooked by it…
Feb 2, 2020 | Nerd Corner
We are developing what we call “The Bone Engine” which is a collection of software tools that can do various computations on scanned 3-D polygonal models of bones and other structures. As an example of one ability of the Bone Engine — it can compute...
Feb 1, 2020 | Nerd Corner
The Long Pastern bone of the horse (aka “P1”) is not symmetric — it has two non-zero angular parameters that we will call “Tilt” and “Twist”. In a DP radiograph, there is an “Apparent Tilt” – the angular...
