Use of magnetic resonance imaging to predict the body composition of pigs in vivo

Animal

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 879-884

  Kremer, P V ^a,b   Forster M ^b   Scholz, A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WEIHENSTEPHAN TRIESDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vivo body composition; MRI; Pigs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BREEDING; EVALUATION STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWINE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BREEDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWINE;

CERDO; PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE;

EID: 84877155850     PISSN: 17517311     EISSN: 1751732X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1751731112002340     Document Type: Article

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