SPAIN - Computerized tomography (CT scan) produces images of the inside of a body without opening it. This technology, initially developed for medical purposes, is being used by IRTAs researchers to determine fat, muscle, and bone composition in animals or their carcasses.CT scans allows inspecting the inside of the animals body and obtain thickness, area, and volume values of every tissue. Being a non-invasive and non-destructive technique, it allows studying the development of carcass composition in a single animal during the various stages of its growth.Traditionally, these values were obtained from serial sacrifices of animals. Among other things and because the study is done with one animal, TC scans allow saving time and money, as well an improving the accuracy of the results.

　　电脑断层摄影术(CT扫描)不用解剖身体就能产生内部的图像。这项技术最初的开辟是用于医学目的，被IRTA的研究者用来断定动物身体内的脂肪、肌肉和骨组成。CT扫描可以察看动物身体内部并获取每块组织的厚度、区域和体积。它是一项非侵入性和房雌坏性的技术，能够研究个体动物在不同生长时期内的胴体组成发展。按照传统主意，这些数值要在持续时期内为科学献身的动物身上获取。消除其他因素并只对一只动物进行研究，TC扫描能节省光阴和金钱，和提高结果的正确性。