Should be very doable. Did you try dragging the Shift slider? It may be that the scalar range of your data is very different from what we typically see. You can look in the Volume Properties section of the Volumes module. You may need to play around with the lookup tables in the advanced section. To make an animation like you linked look at the Animator module in SlicerMorph.
SlicerMorph is an extension for 3D Slicer. It makes importing microCT data into 3D Slicer easier, as well as provides functionality to do landmark-based morphometrics analysis.