Precision of Cavalieri sections and slices with local errors

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 182-198

  Cruz Orive, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cavalieri sections; Cavalieri slices; Explicit nugget; Image analysis; Implicit nugget; Lung; Neuron; Nugget; Number; Object 1; Object O; Particle number; Point counting error; Sectioning error; Smoothness constant; Stereology; Systematic sampling; Variance prediction; Volume

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

CAVALIERI SECTION; CAVALIERI SLICE; COUNTING ERRORS; EXPLICIT NUGGET; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; IMPLICIT NUGGET; LUNG; NUGGET; NUMBER; OBJECT- 1; OBJECT-O; PARTICLE NUMBERS; POINT COUNTING; POINT COUNTING ERROR; SECTIONING ERROR; SMOOTHNESS CONSTANT; STEREOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING; VARIANCE PREDICTION; VOLUME;

FORECASTING;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STEREOLOGY;

EID: 0032968246     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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