... key respiratory parameters in living ringed seals ( Pusa hispida ). Three-dimensional models created from computed tomography (CT) images were used to quantify total lung capacity (TLC), respiratory dead space, minimum air volume and total body volume to improve assessment of lung oxygen storage...

... and bending moments using two independent approaches: a dynamic analytical model of the motion and analysis of muscle cross-sections obtained via computed tomography. Microstructure was assessed by measuring the collagen fiber crimp period in the annulus fibrosus, and composition was assessed via quantitative...

... changes in cetacean and pinniped tracheobronchial shape, and none have quantified changes in volume with increasing pressure. A harbor seal, gray seal, harp seal, harbor porpoise and common dolphin were imaged promptly post mortem via computed tomography in a radiolucent hyperbaric chamber. Volume...

... interactions change rapidly as growth and development alter bladder dimensions and otolith–bladder distance. We used computed tomography imagery of lab-reared larval red drum ( Sciaenops ocellatus ) in a finite-element model to assess ontogenetic changes in acoustic pressure sensitivity in response to a plane...

... (‘solid mandible model’) and quantification of internal bone distribution of the mandibular corpus obtained from computed tomography scans (‘hollow mandible model’) for five carnivorans ( Canis lupus , Crocuta crocuta , Panthera leo , Neofelis nebulosa and the extinct Canis dirus ). Comparison reveals...

... scale models of cetacean flippers derived via computed tomography (CT) scans, as well as computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations, we present a baseline work to describe the hydrodynamic properties of several cetacean flippers. We found that flippers of similar planform shape had similar...