Example of a goat dicom images from CT acquisition performed with Siemens emotion duo CT scanner .

On the morning of the image acquisition, goats were milked and weighed before intravenous anaesthesia with ketamine (100 mg/mL; 0.05 mL/kg BW i.v.). Anaesthetised animals were positioned dorsally on an inflatable mattress to ensure minimal movements during CT acquisition. The CT acquisition was performed with a Siemens emotion duo CT scanner (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) with the following acquisition parameters: tube tension 130 kV, tube current 40 mAs, slice thickness 3 mm, FoV 500mm×500 mm, matrix 512×512, convolution kernel B30s (soft tissue).