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Video: Librevet in 90 seconds

Librevet is a veterinary radiograph viewer and case-planning tool. Every film gets calibration, standard radiographic measurement and annotation, and orthopaedic planning adds TPLO planning, fracture repair planning and implant templating at true scale.

What does Librevet do?

Video: What Librevet does for you in one click
  • View and annotate digital radiographs
  • Calibrate using a known-size reference (typically a radiopaque sphere)
  • Measure distances, angles, TPA, CORA and Norberg angles
  • Overlay implant templates drawn to true millimetre dimensions
  • Plan straight, wedge and crescentic osteotomies, and reposition bone
  • Send a case to a referring vet as a read-only link, or name a colleague who can work on it with you
  • Ask a board-certified specialist for a paid remote opinion — not open yet; see Specialist opinions
  • Ask a supplier (a manufacturer or a wholesaler) for its free recommendation on a case — not open yet; see Sharing and referrals

Who is it for?

Small animal vets planning an orthopaedic case on its radiographs. The app assumes clinical knowledge — it doesn’t teach you when to perform a TPLO, just helps you plan one accurately.

What do I do first?

  1. Start from an image. From the gallery, click New Case and drop in a radiograph, a zipped study, or a clinical video — or pull a study straight off your PACS. No images yet? Start without imaging, at the foot of the same dialog, makes the case with nothing in it and opens its record; add the films when you have them.
  2. Name it. DICOM files are read by the app directly — you don’t have to export a JPEG first — and JPEG, PNG and a zipped study all work too. Name the case once the first image is in, and organise into folders whenever you like.
  3. Calibrate. Anything that reads or draws in millimetres waits for a real-world scale: Line, Angle, Circle and TPA, every osteotomy, Reposition and the implant templates. See Calibrating radiographs.
  4. Measure or plan. Once calibrated, all of those unlock. Annotation, CORA and Norberg work before you calibrate.

What is on the screen?

  • Left sidebar — Tools, the planning sections: Calibration, Measurement, Annotation, Osteotomy and Reposition. Implants, the template library.
  • Centre canvas — the radiograph workspace. Each open view carries its own toolbar for mirroring, windowing and inverting the film; on a computer, the knob in its bottom-right corner turns it.
  • Top bar — the case’s other screens (the record, the attachments and logging, and the specialist report once a case has been sent for a specialist opinion), the surgical report, sharing, the magnification loupe, the switch for the readings on the film, and undo/redo
  • Bottom-left of the films — the swap panel, when a placed implant is selected: its name, swap controls, and delete. Drag it by its header, or put it in the sidebar’s Implants tab instead. On a window narrower than about 1,024 pixels it always sits at the top of the Implants tab
  • Bottom-right — help, bug reports, feature requests

Key concepts

  • Calibration is per-radiograph. Each image needs its own scale set, because every exposure has different magnification.
  • The “active” radiograph has a cyan border. With multiple views open, tools act only on the active one — click a panel to make it active.
  • Templates are drawn to true mm dimensions. A 3.5 mm plate is drawn at 3.5 mm against the scale you calibrated — so the fit you see is only as good as that calibration.
  • Placed implants are anchored to the bone, not to the screen. If you later rotate the radiograph to view from a different angle, the implant rotates with it.