Dear MARMAM Group Readers,

On behalf of the Aquatic Animal Virtopsy Lab 
(https://www.facebook.com/AAVLab2014) in City University of Hong Kong, my 
colleagues and I are pleased to share our new paper “Illustrated 
cross-sectional computed tomography of the cetacean abdomino-pelvic organs”, in 
the Annals of Anatomy. Access the manuscript and download the fulltext at 
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1jhcl3LynVvZn4 before 20 October 2024 for Free!

Cite this paper:
Kot, B. C. W., Yeong, J. W. Y., Kwan, A. S. Y., Ho, G. Y. H., Ho, H. H. N., 
Tsui, H. C. L., Chung, T. Y. T., & Gerussi, T. (2024). Illustrated 
cross-sectional computed tomography of the cetacean abdomino-pelvic organs. 
Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische 
Gesellschaft, 256, 152317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2024.152317

Anatomy fundamentals are essential for understanding the relationship between 
the various components of the animal body. Understanding anatomy is a very 
essential key to diagnosing patients and to the practice of health and 
medicine. With our experiences on conducting cetacean virtopsy since 2014, 
postmortem computed tomography (CT) has been extensively used and thereby, we 
documented the cross-sectional CT imaging anatomy of the cetacean 
abdomino-pelvic region (using Indo-Pacific finless porpoises as the 
illustration) for the first time. The manuscript was an excellent demonstration 
of teamwork among several student researchers in our AAVLab since 2020, which 
is now published in the Annals of Anatomy as a standard anatomical reference 
for cetacean scientists, researchers, students, and veterinarians worldwide.

Highlight:
• Understanding the normal abdomino-pelvic topography in cetaceans is important.

• Computed tomography assists abdomino-pelvic anatomical studies and postmortem 
assessments in stranded cetacean.

• Addition of angiography with PMCT (PMCTA) is essential to enhance the 
contrast between abdomino-pelvic structures and organs.

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. If you have any 
questions regarding the work or would like a direct copy, please do not 
hesitate to get in touch, at [email protected].

Happy reading 🙂

Warm regards,
Brian Kot


Ph.D. in Diagnostic Imaging, B.Sc. (Hons) in Radiography, Cert. (RPC), CAS 
(Forensic Imaging & Virtopsy)

Assistant Professor

Department of Infectious Diseases and Pubic Health

Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences

City University of Hong Kong



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