"If you assume, you can make an ass out of u and me": A decade of the disector for stereological counting of particles in 3D space

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-15

  Mayhew, T M ^a   Gundersen, H J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disector; Particle counting; Stereology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEREOLOGY; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MICROTOMY;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 0029968229     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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