Research Article

Computer Tomographic Illustration of the Development of the Pulmonary Function in Bovine Neonates until the Twenty-First Day Postnatum

Table 3

X-ray absorption values of lung parenchyma in HU of 15 vital calves in the first hour p. n. (measured data of the dorsal and ventral lung segments).

Lung section ± MinimumMaximum

A (dorsocranial)60−57082−718−389
C (dorsocaudal)135−48858−607−328
B (ventrocranial)60−304149−567−328
B (ventrocaudal)131−276111−478−56