Rhinoceros feet step out of a rule-of-thumb: a wildlife imaging pioneering approach of synchronized computed tomography-digital radiography.

Currently, radiography is the only imaging technique used to diagnose bone pathology in wild animals situated under "field conditions". Nevertheless, while chronic foot disease in captive mega-herbivores is widely reported, foot radiographic imaging is confronted with scarcity of studies....

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Main Authors: Gabriela Galateanu, Robert Hermes, Joseph Saragusty, Frank Göritz, Romain Potier, Baptiste Mulot, Alexis Maillot, Pascal Etienne, Rui Bernardino, Teresa Fernandes, Jurgen Mews, Thomas Bernd Hildebrandt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4070926?pdf=render