1 The Second Clinical Medical College, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery ... compressing adjacent structures such as the left lung and diaphragm (Figures 2A–C).
with the vertebra that matched the diaphragm height used in the unaerated images. The thoracic area was corrected for the length between the 1st and 5th vertebrae measured for each kitten on ImageJ to ...