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Estimation of carcass composition and cut composition from computed tomography images of live growing pigs of different genotypes.
Animal : an international journal of animal bioscience - 1 Jan 2015
Font-i-Furnols Maria, Carabús Anna, Pomar Candido, Gispert Marina
Abstract excerpt
The aim of the present work was (1) to study the relationship between cross-sectional computed tomography (CT) images obtained in live growing pigs of different genotypes and dissection measurements and (2) to estimate carcass composition and cut composition from CT measurements. Sixty gilts from three genotypes (Duroc×(Landrace×Large White), Pietrain×(Landrace×Large White), and Landrace×Large White) were CT...
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