Non-destructive estimation of the intramuscular fat content of the longissimus muscle of pigs by means of spectral analysis of ultrasound echo signals

Meat Science

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 187-199

  Morlein D ^a,c   Rosner, F ^a   Brand, S ^a,c   Jenderka, K V ^b   Wicke, M ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic parameters; Attenuation; Discriminant analysis; IMF; Intramuscular fat; M. longissimus; Meat quality; NDT; Non destructive testing; PLS analysis; Pork; Spectral analysis; Tissue characterisation; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; IMF; INTRAMUSCULAR FAT; LONGISSIMUS; MEAT QUALITY; PLS ANALYSIS; PORK; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ATTENUATION; ESTIMATION; MEATS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OILS AND FATS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

MUSCLE;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 5744247743     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2004.06.011     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Abou El Karam, S., Buquet, B., Berge, P., & Culioli, J. (1997). Ultrasonic characterization of bovine muscles. In Proceedings of the 43rd ICoMST, 27 July to 1 August 1997, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 310-311.
2. Amin, V., Patel, A., Roberts, R., Rouse, G., & Wilson, D. (1995). Application of A-mode ultrasound, for carcass quality grading. A Progress Report, Rep. No. ASL-R1221, Iowa State University, Department of Animal Science.
3. Benedito, J., Carcel, J. A., Rossello, C., & Mulet, A. (2001). Composition assessment of raw meat mixtures using ultrasonics. Meat Science, 17(4), 365-370.
4. Blanchard, P. J., Warkup, C. C., Ellis, M., Willis, M. B., & Avery, P. (1999). The influence of the proportion of Duroc genes on growth carcass and pork eating quality characteristics. Animal Science, 68, 495-501.
5. Blanchard, P. J., Willis, M. B., Warkup, C. C., & Ellis, M. (2000). The influence of carcass backfat and intramuscular fat level on pork eating quality. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 80(1), 145-151.
6. Brand, S. (2004). Ultraschallspektroskopie an fokussierenden Systemen unter Berücksichtigung vorgelagerter absorbierender Schichten. Doctoral Thesis, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany.
7. Brand, S., Moerlein, D., Rosner, F., Wicke, M., & Jenderka, K. V. (2002). Estimation of intramuscular fat content (IMF) in the muscle longissimus dorsi (LD) of pigs by analysis of RF echo signals obtained from a clinical B-mode device. In Proceedings of the IEEE ultrasonics symposium in Munich, 8-11 October 2002.
8. Brethour, J. R. (1994). Estimating marbling score in live cattle from ultrasound images using pattern recognition and neural network procedures. Journal of Animal Science, 72(6), 1425-1432.
9. Brewer, M. S., Jensen, J., Sosnicki, A. A., Fields, B., Wilson, E., & McKeith, F. K. (2002). The effect of pig genetics on palatability, color and physical characteristics of fresh pork loin chops. Meat Science, 61(3), 249-256.
10. Eggert, J. M., Depreux, F. F. S., Schinckel, A. P., Grant, A. L., & Gerrard, D. E. (2002). Myosin heavy chain isoforms account for variation in pork quality. Meat Science, 61(2), 117-126.
11. Fernandez, X., Monin, G., Talmant, A., Mourot, J., & Lebret, B. (1999a). Influence of intramuscular fat content on the quality of pig meat - 1. Composition of the lipid fraction and sensory characteristics of M. longissimus lumborum. Meat Science, 53(1), 59-65.
12. Fernandez, X., Monin, G., Talmant, A., Mourot, J., & Lebret, B. (1999b), Influence of intramuscular fat content on the quality of pig meat - 2. Consumer acceptability of M. longissimus lumborum. Meat Science, 53(1), 67-72.
13. Gärtner, T. (2001). Ultraschallspektroskopie mit fokussierenden Systemen zur quantitativen Bestimmung von akustischen Parametern. Doctoral Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle.
14. Hassen, A., Wilson, D. E., Amin, V. R., Rouse, G. H., & Hays, C. L. (2001). Predicting percentage of intramuscular fat using two types of real-time ultrasound equipment. Journal of Animal Science, 79(1), 11-18.
15. Jacyno, E., Pietruszka, A., Kolodziej, A., & Czarnecki, R. (2002). Content of lipid components in m. longissimus dorsi of progeny of the boars descending from reciprocal crossing of the Pietrain and Duroc breeds. Archiv für Tierzucht - Archives of Animal Breeding, 45(3), 237-245.
16. Jenderka, K.V., Gärtner, T., Zacharias, M., Heynemann, H., & Cobet, U. (1999). System independent tissue typing of human testis and prostate. In Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE ultrasonics symposium, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA.
17. Josell, A., von Seth, G., & Tornberg, E. (2003). Sensory quality and the incidence of PSE of pork in relation to crossbreed and RN phenotype. Meat Science, 65(1), 651-660.
18. Kim, N., Amin, V., Wilson, D., Rouse, G., & Udpa, S. (1998). Ultrasound image texture analysis for characterizing intramuscular fat content of live beef cattle. Ultrasonic Imaging, 20(3), 191-205.
19. Kipfmüller, H., Bodis, K., Peschke, W., & Eichinger, H. M. (2000). Qualität von Schweinefleisch. Beeinflussung durch das intramuskuläre Fett. Ernährungsumschau, 47(11), 416-422.
20. Laube, S., Henning, M., Brandt, H., Kallweit, E., & Glodek, P. (2000). Meat quality in pig crosses with special quality characteristics as compared to present Standard and Brand Pork Supply. Archiv für Tierzucht - Archives of Animal Breeding, 43(5), 463-476.
21. Martens, H., & Naes, T. (1991). Multivariate calibration. New York: Wiley.
22. Merks, J., Walstra, P., & Kanis, E. (2000). Effect of IMF-level on consumers' perception. In Proceedings of the list annual meeting of the European association for animal production, Hague.
23. Park, B., Whittaker, A. D., Miller, R. K., & Bray, D. E. (1994). Measuring intramuscular fat in beef with ultrasonic frequency analysis. Journal of Animal Science, 72(1), 117-125.
24. Park, B., Whittaker, A. D., Miller, R. K., & Hale, D. S. (1994). Predicting intramuscular fat in beef longissimus muscle from speed of sound. Journal of Animal Science, 72(1), 109-116.
25. Raju, B. I., & Srinivasan, M. A. (2001). High-frequency ultrasonic attenuation and backscatter coefficients of in vivo normal human dermis and subcutaneous fat. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 27(11), 1543-1556.
26. Realini, C. E., Duckett, S. K., & Windham, W. R. (2004). Effect of vitamin C addition to ground beef from grass-fed or grain-fed sources on color and lipid stability, and prediction of fatty acid composition by near-infrared reflectance analysis. Meat Science, 68(1), 35-43.
27. SAS. (1999). SAS/STAT user guide, version 8. Cary, NC, USA: SAS Institute Inc.
28. Scheipers, U., Ermert, H., Sommerfeld, H. J., Garcia-Schurmann, M., Senge, T., & Philippou, S. (2003). Ultrasonic multifeature tissue characterization for prostate diagnostics. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 29(8), 1137-1149.
29. Smith, N. B. (1996). Effect of myofibril length and tissue constituents on acoustic propagation properties of muscle. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois.
30. van Laack, R., Stevens, S. G., & Stalder, K. J. (2001). The influence of ultimate pH and intramuscular fat content on pork tenderness and tenderization. Journal of Animal Science, 79(2), 392-397.
31. Ville, H., Rombouts, G., Van Hecke, P., Perremans, S., Maes, G., Spincemaille, G., & Geers, R. (1997). An evaluation of ultrasound and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to measure in vivo intramuscular fat content of longissimus muscle of pigs. Journal of Animal Science, 75(11), 2942-2949.
32. Warentest (2002). Warentest für Mastferkel 2002 Prüfungsbericht. Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt Westfalen-Lippe, Münster.
33. Watson, R. J., McLean, C. C., Moore, M. P., Spencer, T., Salter, D. M., Anderson, T., et al. (2000). Classification of arterial plaque by spectral analysis of in vitro radio frequency intravascular ultrasound data. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology, 26(1), 73-80.
34. Whittaker, A. D., Park, B., Thane, B. R., Miller, R. K., & Savell, J. W. (1992). Principles of ultrasound and measurement of intramuscular fat. Journal of Animal Science, 70(3), 942-952.