Advanced Diagnostic Imaging

Your Place for Informed Answers and Collaborative Diagnosis

At Veterinary Medical Center at Lakewood Ranch, our diagnostic imaging team helps uncover the answers behind complex medical conditions. Using advanced imaging technology and expert interpretation from our board-certified veterinary radiologist, we provide detailed insights that guide informed diagnosis, treatment planning, and better outcomes for pets.

✓ On-site Diagnostic Imaging

✓ Fast Results for Critical Cases

✓ Integrated With General Practice & Specialty Care

✓ Expert Imaging Interpretation

✓ On-site Diagnostic Imaging ✓ Fast Results for Critical Cases ✓ Integrated With General Practice & Specialty Care ✓ Expert Imaging Interpretation

Diagnostic Imaging at VMC is Built Around Personalized Care

From the moment your pet arrives, a nurse is assigned to make sure they're comfortable and looked after. Our diagnostic imaging service is open to all pets, whether you're a current VMC client or visiting us for imaging only. Every patient receives the same attentive, individualized experience.

Why Imaging Matters

Answers When Your Pet Needs Them Most

When pets become sick or injured, diagnostic imaging helps veterinarians look inside the body to understand what's happening. Diagnostic imaging allows us to detect injuries, identify disease, and guide treatment decisions quickly.

Our imaging services support every department in the hospital, from general practice and wellness to emergency and critical care to specialty services, ensuring pets receive coordinated, comprehensive care.

Imaging Technology

Advanced Imaging for Collaborative Diagnosis

Our hospital is equipped with modern imaging tools that help our team evaluate a wide range of medical conditions. Each imaging method provides different insights, allowing us to build a complete picture of your pet's health.

All imaging results are finalized in a timely manner, and a copy is sent to both you and your primary veterinarian. We pride ourselves on clear, timely communication with primary care teams, whether they're local or out of state. We work closely with our emergency doctors, specialists, and general practitioners when follow-up care is needed.

  • Digital X-rays provide fast, detailed images that help diagnose fractures, lung disease, abdominal issues, and many other conditions. Digital technology allows our veterinarians to review images instantly and collaborate across departments when needed.

  • Abdominal ultrasound is one of VMC's most frequently used imaging tools, providing a non-invasive, real-time view of your pet's internal organs. It allows our team to evaluate the liver, kidneys, spleen, bladder, gastrointestinal tract, and surrounding structures without sedation in most cases.

    Abdominal ultrasound is helpful for identifying masses, fluid accumulation, urinary obstructions, GI abnormalities, and organ changes that may not appear on X-rays. All studies are performed and interpreted by our board-certified veterinary radiologist, Dr. Wilson.

  • CT gives our team detailed cross-sectional views of your pet's anatomy that traditional X-rays cannot. It is especially valuable for evaluating complex fractures, identifying masses or tumors, assessing the nasal cavity and sinuses, and planning surgical approaches.

    CT is available at VMC today. All scans are performed in-house and interpreted by Dr. Wilson. Currently, CT is scheduled through our diagnostic imaging team as part of a hospital stay, with general anesthesia or heavy sedation as needed for safety and image quality.

    Outpatient CT is in the works. We are building a faster, simpler pathway so families and referring veterinarians can have a CT performed without an inpatient admission. We'll update this page as soon as the outpatient option goes live.

  • VMC's advanced imaging capabilities go beyond standard radiography and ultrasound. With CT scanning available in-house and outpatient CT in the works, our team can provide detailed cross-sectional imaging without referring your pet to an outside facility.

    These tools allow our board-certified radiologist and specialty teams to collaborate on complex cases, from surgical planning to evaluating treatment response, all under one roof.

What We Capture

A Closer Look at Our Imaging Work

These are real examples of the studies our team performs and interprets. They show the kind of detail our patients' families and referring veterinarians can expect to receive.

When Imaging May Be Needed

Conditions Diagnostic Imaging Can Help Evaluate

Diagnostic imaging plays a critical role in evaluating many medical concerns. Imaging may be recommended when pets experience symptoms that require a closer look inside the body.

How Diagnostic Imaging Supports Treatment

Imaging That Guides Better Care

Diagnostic imaging helps guide treatment decisions and monitor progress over time.

Our imaging services support:

  • Surgical planning

  • Emergency diagnosis

  • Chronic disease management

  • Monitoring recovery and healing

  • Pre-treatment diagnostics

By combining advanced imaging technology with expert veterinary interpretation, we help to provide the information needed to make informed medical decisions for your pet.

Safety & Comfort

Safe, Comfortable Imaging for Every Patient

Your pet's comfort and safety are always our priority during diagnostic procedures. Most imaging studies can be performed quickly and gently while pets remain calm and supported by our team.

If sedation is needed for certain imaging procedures, we follow careful monitoring protocols to ensure safety and minimize stress.

Our team works to make the experience as smooth and comfortable as possible for both pets and their families.

A Slower, More Personal Path to Imaging

Some pets arrive at VMC needing imaging right now, in the middle of an emergency. Others come on a quieter day, by referral, when their primary veterinarian wants a closer look.

For that second group, Dr. Jamie Barclay leads VMC's concierge diagnostic imaging service: a calmer, more personal path through the imaging process that begins the moment a pet is dropped off and stays in close contact with the family and the primary care team until every answer is in hand.

Dr. Barclay coordinates the concierge service alongside the rest of VMC's diagnostic imaging team, the people who keep every study moving from admission to final report. Meet them below.

Meet Our Diagnostic Imaging Team

Nedra Wilson, BVetMed, DACVR

Diagnostic Imaging Specialist

Dr. Nedra Wilson grew up in Rochester, New York. She received a Bachelor of Science in animal science from Cornell University (Ithaca, NY). Dr. Wilson pursued her Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of London's Royal Veterinary College in 2006 (UK).

After returning from overseas, she completed a one-year small animal rotating internship on Cape Cod/Dennis, MA at Cape Animal Referral and Emergency Hospital. Here she decided she wanted to pursue Diagnostic Imaging and wanted to gain some clinical and radiology experience, so she headed to the northwest.

She then worked in Emergency Medicine at DoveLewis Animal Hospital (Portland, OR) for two years before starting her three-year Diagnostic Imaging residency program at Cornell University. She also completed an additional year clinical fellowship with a joint appointment in Biomedical Sciences and the Cornell University Hospital for Animals.

Dr. Wilson became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Radiology in 2014. She has worked in specialty and emergency hospitals throughout the northeast, with a recent move to the Suncoast.

Dr. Wilson is especially interested in musculoskeletal imaging, ultrasound, CT and marine mammal imaging. In her down time, Dr. Wilson enjoys keeping saltwater and freshwater fish tanks, walking her three rescue dogs, being on the golf course, traveling and spending time with her family.

  • Jamie Barclay, DVM

    Diagnostic Imaging Associate
    Emergency Medicine
    In-Home Euthanasia

  • Matthew Buesing, DVM

    Diagnostic Imaging Associate
    Emergency Medicine

  • Kiera

    Diagnostic Imaging Associate
    Veterinary Technician

Answers Start With the Right Imaging

If your pet is experiencing illness, injury, or unexplained symptoms, diagnostic imaging can help reveal the cause and guide the next step in care.

Our diagnostic imaging services support informed diagnosis, thoughtful treatment planning, and coordinated care across every department in our hospital.


Veterinary Medical Center at Lakewood Ranch

15205 Garnet Trail, Bradenton, FL 34211
Phone: (941) 739-1800
Hours: Open 24 hours a day