Fig 4. Demonstration of measurements made using a digitizer on transverse plane CT images of the chests of two different cats.
D–the shortest distance between the vertebra and the sternum, H–the dorsoventral diameter of the body of the same vertebra, M–the maximum distance between the ventral spine and the inner margin of the most ventral portion of the rib cage, R–the maximum dorsoventral diameter of the right hemithorax, L–the maximum dorsoventral diameter of the left hemithorax; the angle between the sternum and the horizontal line indicates the sternal torsion angle.
