Dear MARMAM Readers, On behalf of the Aquatic Animal Virtopsy Lab (https://www.facebook.com/aquanimallab) in City University of Hong Kong, my colleagues and I are pleased to share our new paper "Image Rendering Techniques in Postmortem Computed Tomography: Evaluation of Biological Health and Profile in Stranded Cetaceans", recently published in Journal of Visualized Experiments. The captioned paper is available here: https://bit.ly/2G8vAL9 Cite this paper: Kot, B. C. W., Chan, D. K. P., Chung, T. Y. T., Tsui, H. C. L. Image Rendering Techniques in Postmortem Computed Tomography: Evaluation of Biological Health and Profile in Stranded Cetaceans. J. Vis. Exp. (163), e61701, doi:10.3791/61701 (2020). Highlight:

From time to time, we presented different reconstructed CT images in our publication and facebook posts for illustrations. They are in fact generated by various unique image rendering techniques. These images are not only meant to draw the audiences' attention, but also provide solid ground for aquatic animal virtopsy and clinical radiology reporting. Recently, one of our papers regarding this important topic is published on the Journal of Visualized Experiments. The related video is also published along as an audio and visual navigation. We sincerely hope this key paper could help clinicians, veterinarians and stranding response personnel worldwide to fully utilize virtopsy for the biological health and profile evaluation of aquatic animals.

I am happy to provide a PDF of the article upon request. Please email me at briankot@cityu.edu.hk<mailto:briankot@cityu.edu.hk> if you are interested, or if you have any questions about our paper. I would like to extend my gratitude to readers of our work, as well as editors and reviewers for their contributions to this finished version. Warm regards, Brian Kot Ph.D. in Diagnostic Imaging, B.Sc. (Hons) in Radiography, Cert. (RPC), Cert. (Virtopsy) Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences City University of Hong Kong cum Research Fellow State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution City University of Hong Kong E: briankot@cityu.edu.hk<mailto:briankot@cityu.edu.hk>, briankot@yahoo.co.uk<mailto:briankot@yahoo.co.uk> W: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/jcc/staff/dr-brian-kot-chin-wing Aquatic Animal Virtopsy Lab Follow us at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aquanimallab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aquanimallab Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited.