Family Veterinary Clinic

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Family Veterinary Clinic’s new building opening spring 2010

For twenty-seven years, Family Veterinary Clinic has been a familiar destination for you and your beloved pets. Our modest Cape Cod house welcomed you, in times of joy and sorrow, with a family atmosphere and a caring staff. Over the years our family has grown, and the time has come for a new beginning. We say goodbye with a touch of sadness, but look forward with joy and anticipation as our new home begins to rise. Much thought and planning went into the design, and we are sure that you and your family will feel even more at home. We have the same care and the same staff with a new home to serve you for the next twenty-seven years.

Digital X-Rays at FVC

FVC Introduces the first Digital X-Ray in Local Area Clinics

When pets are injured or ill, getting a fast, accurate X-ray is often essential in developing a proper diagnosis and course of treatment. State-of-the-art digital X-ray machines, used in human medicine for 10 years, help facilitate expedited treatment. Family Veterinary Clinic is proud to be the only clinic in the area to now have such a device on-site and in operation. FVC recently installed a Fujifilm FCR XC-1 unit, which has now become the workhorse of our radiology area.

This new digital X-ray can produce images in seconds and does not require films to be developed. Since the unit is so fast, waiting times are reduced in general. In addition, if an animal has moved during an exposure the operator knows this quickly and can take another image right away.

In choosing this Fujifilm unit, speed was not the primary concern. The quality of the images was paramount to the veterinarians at FVC. The new digital X-ray takes very high-resolution digital images.
The images can be zoomed in and out, and other features such as contrast can be adjusted to improve the view to aid the veterinarian in diagnosis. The digital X-ray offers other features not available with conventional technologies, such as the enhancement of different sized tissues in the same image and the suppression of noise, providing unprecedented image clarity.

Record storage and retrieval has always been a chore in the vetrinary field. With this new digital X-ray unit, the image data can be saved and backed up, making it available to the FVC veterinarians for later use at the push of a button.