Predicting percentage of intramuscular fat using two types of real-time ultrasound equipment

Journal of Animal Science

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 11-18

  Hassen, A ^a   Wilson, D E ^a   Amin, V R ^a   Rouse, G H ^a   Hays, C L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beef Cattle; Carcass Quality; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEAT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARD;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0035219009     PISSN: 00218812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2527/2001.79111x     Document Type: Article

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