03/06/2009

OBJECTIVE

DETERMINATION OF INTRAMUSCULAR
FAT OF THE LOIN WITH CT. PRELIMINARY
RESULTS Find a technique to determine the intramuscular fat of
the loin by means of CT scanning in order to use it in
the future to determine the intramuscular fat in life
animals
Maria Font i Furnols, Fabiana Teran, Marina Gispert

CT WORKSHOP
Monells, 16-17th April 2009

METHODOLOGY

LOINS OF Longissimus dorsi with different levels of

intramuscular fat (IMF) scanned with CT
Visual determination of the Visual determination of the
IMF with the NPPC scale IMF with CT : loins and live
(3 technicians) animals Scanning parameters:
Method 1 Method 2 Method 3

Axial full 3s Helical 1.5s Axial full 1s

Chemical determination of Statistical or “software” 1mm thick 1 mm thick 10 mm thick
the intramuscular fat determination of the IMF 120 kV 120 kV 140 kV
content by means of NIT with CT images in live 200 mA 200 mA 145 mA
EDGE EDGE STND
animals

Visual determination of the IMF with CT

Method 1 Method 2 Method 3 IMF = 3.42% NPPC = 3 (3,3,3)

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IMF = 3.73% NPPC = 2.7 (3,3,2)

IMF = 4.41% NPPC = 3 (3,3,3)

IMF = 4.98% NPPC = 3.7 (4,4,3) IMF = 9.20% NPPC = 4.7 (5,5,4)

FURTHER WORKS

Further works:
IMF = 17.40% NPPC = 8 (10,8,6)
•Scanning of more loins with different levels of IMF
•Improve the methodology to determine the IMF visually.
•Creation of a software to determine IMF based on
segmentation techniques.
•Determination of a regression equation with PLS to
estimate the IMF.