Fractal and Fourier analysis of the hepatic sinusoidal network in normal and cirrhotic rat liver

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-115

  Gaudio, Eugenio ^a,d   Chaberek, Slawomir ^b   Montella, Andrea ^c   Pannarale, Luigi ^a   Morini, Sergio ^d   Novelli, Gilnardo ^e   Borghese, Federica ^a   Conte, Davide ^a   Ostrowski, Kazimierz ^f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Independent Clinical Hospital   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Corrosion casts; Discriminant analysis; Fourier analysis; Fractal dimensions; Liver cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER SINUSOID; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23344439606     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2005.00436.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Angelico M, Alvaro D, Cantafora A, et al. (1991) Impaired hepatic handling and processing of Lysophosphatidylcholine in rats with liver cirrhosis. Gastroenterology 101, 228-237.
2. Ariosto F, Riggio O, Cantafora A, et al. (1989) Carbon tetrachloride-induced experimental cirrhosis in the rat: a reappraisal of the model. Eur Surg Res 21, 280-286.
3. Avakian A, Kalina RE, Sage EH, et al. (2002) Fractal analysis of region-based vascular change in the normal and non-proliferative diabetic retina. Curr Eye Res 24, 274-280.
4. Caldwell CB, Stapleton SJ, Holdsworth DW, et al. (1990) Characterisation of mammographic parenchymal pattern by fractal dimension. Phys Med Biol 35, 235-247.
5. Caligiuri P, Giger ML, Favus M (1994) Multifractal radiographic analysis of osteoporosis. Med Phys 21, 503-508.
6. Carpino F, Gaudio E, Marinozzi G, Melis M, Motta PM (1981) A scanning and transmission electron microscopic study of experimental extrahepatic cholestasis in the rat. J Submicrosc Cytol 13, 581-598.
7. Chan KL (1995) Quantitative characterisation of electron micrograph image using fractal feature. IEEE Trans Biomed Engng 42, 1033-1037.
8. Daxer A (1993) Characterisation of the neovascularisation process in diabetic retinopathy by means of fractal geometry: diagnostic implications. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 231, 681-686.
9. Fazzalari NI, Parkinson IH (1996) Fractal dimension and architecture of trabecular bone. J Pathol 178, 100-105.
10. Feder J (1988) Fractals. New York: Plenum Press.
11. Gaudio E, Pannarale L, Onori P, Riggio O (1993) A scanning electron microscopic study of liver microcirculation disarrangement in experimental rat cirrhosis. Hepatology 17, 477-485.
12. Gaudio E, Onori P, Pannarale L, Alvaro D (1996) Hepatic microcirculation and peribiliary plexus in experimental biliary cirrhosis: a morphological study. Gastroenterology 111, 1118-1124.
13. Gaudio E, Onori P, Franchitto A, Sferra R, Riggio O (1997) Liver metabolic zonation and hepatic microcirculation in carbon tetrachloride-induced experimental cirrhosis. Dig Dis Sci 42, 167-177.
14. Gerates WGM, Van der Stelt PF (2000) Fractal properties of bone. Dentomaxillofac Radiol 29, 144-153.
15. Hesse L, Chofflet J, Le Mer Y (1993) Simulation of the growth pattern of the central retinal artery using a fractal modeling technique. Ger J Ophthalmol 2, 116-118.
16. Hodde KC, Miodonski AJ, Bakker C, Veltman WAM (1977) SEM of microcorrosion casts with special attention on arteriovenous differences and application to the rat cochlea. Scanning Electron Microsc II, 477-484.
17. Kedzia A, Rybaczuk M, Andrzejak R (2002) Fractal dimensions of human brain cortex vessels during the fetal period. Med Sci Monit 8, 46-51.
18. Landini G, Misson GP, Murray PI (1993) Fractal analysis of the normal human retinal fluorescein angiogram. Curr Eye Res 12, 23-27.
19. Losa GF, Weibel ER (1994) Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Basel: Birkhauser Verlag.
20. Mainster MA (1990) The fractal properties of retinal vessels: embryological and clinical implications. Eye 4, 235-241.
21. Mandelbrot BB (1967) How long is the coast of Britain? - Statistical self-similarity and fractional dimension. Science 156, 636-638.
22. Martinez-Hernandez A, Martinez J (1991) The role of capillarization in hepatic failure: studies in carbon tetrachloride-induced cirrhosis. Hepatology 14, 864-874.
23. Miodonski AJ, Bar T (1987) The superficial vascular hyaloid system in the eye of the frogs, Rana temporaria and Rana esculenta. Scanning electron-microscopic study of vascular corrosion casts. Cell Tissue Res 250, 465-473.
24. 4-treated rats. J Hepatol 33, 555-563.
25. Panico J, Sterling P (1995) Retinal neurons and vessels are not fractal but space-filling. J Comp Neurol 361, 479-490.
26. Proctor E, Chatamra K (1984) Standardized micronodular cirrhosis in the rat. Eur Surg Res 16, 182-186.
27. Reichen J, Hoilien C, Le M, Jones RH (1987) Decreased uptake of taurocholate and ouabain by hepatocytes isolated from cirrhotic rat liver. Hepatology 7, 67-70.
28. Samarabandu J, Acharya R, Hausmann E, Allen K (1993) Analysis of bone X-rays using morphological fractals. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 12, 466-470.
29. Slott PA, Liu MH, Tavoloni N (1990) Origin, pattern, and mechanism of bile duct proliferation following biliary obstruction in the rat. Gastroenterology 99, 466-477.
30. Steiner JW, Carruthers JS, Kalifat SR (1962) The ductular cell reaction of rat liver in extrahepatic cholestasis. II. Proliferated biliary epithelial cell. Exp Mol Pathol 1, 162-185.
31. Veenland JF, Grashuis JL, Van der Meer F, Beckers A, Gelsema ES (1966) Estimation of fractal dimension in radiograms. Med Phys 23, 585-594.
32. Vico PG, Boyer H, Cartillier LH (1994) New concepts in the study of tissue vascularisation: a mathematical model of skin vascularisation. Plast Reconstr Surg 94, 174-179.