Possibilities of Multislice Computed Tomography on an Example of Studying Spinal Deformity in Goldfish (Carassius auratus)1

A. V. Gubin, G. V. Diachkova*, A. E. Kobyzev, T. A. Silantieva, K. A. Diachkov, S. O. Ryabykh, E. N. Gorbach , and N. S. Migalkin

Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center for Restorative Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Kurgan, 640014 Russia

Correspondence to: *e-mail: dgv2003@list.ru

1The article was translated by the authors.

Received 16 June, 2016

Abstract—The method of multislice computed tomography has been used to study qualitative and quantitative changes in the spine of the Carassius auratus goldfish that featured multiplanar spinal deformity in the areas of truncal and tail vertebrae.

Keywords: goldfish Carassius auratus, spinal deformity, scoliosis, multislice computed tomography

DOI: 10.1134/S003294521704004X