We've just released a scan of the canine hindlimb muscles. 🐕 It's created from a reconstruction of a real cadaver, so it shows the muscle topography in as close to a real-life way as possible.

How the muscles really look

What's nice about these scans is that they give you a really accurate picture of how the muscles look in real life, compared with the schematic content we already have for the canine hindlimb. The layout of the muscle bellies is much more true to life, which is exactly what you want when you're palpating a limb or planning a surgical approach.

Use it alongside the schematic content

The one drawback of scanned content is that you can't hide the surface layers to look at the deeper ones. That's where our schematic canine hindlimb muscles come in. Used together, we think they're a really powerful way to understand the musculature of the region. We did the same for the front end too, see our canine forelimb muscle scan.

Where to find it

On IVALA Learn, it's in our all-in-one 3D Anatomy Viewer. On VIN, you'll find it on the Learn Anatomy in 3D page, which you can reach from the anatomy interactive content link in the Student Center or via the Library.

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