Spatial correlation analysis of isotropic microvessels: Methodology and application to thyroid capillaries

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 810-822

  Krasnoperov, Renat A ^a   Stoyan, Dietrich ^b  

^a Proxima Technology Ltd   (Russian Federation)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood and lymphatic microvessels; Intercapillary distance; Multilevel sampling; Pair correlation function; Planar section; Second order stereology; Spatial distribution; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HORMONES; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BLOOD AND LYMPHATIC MICROVESSELS; INTERCAPILLARY DISTANCE; MULTILEVEL SAMPLING; SECOND-ORDER STEREOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THYROID GLAND;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALBINISM; ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RESEARCH; THYROID GLAND; VASCULARIZATION;

ALBINISM; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; CAPILLARIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RATS; RESEARCH; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 33744731107     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-006-9085-9     Document Type: Article

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