A simple tool for stereological assessment of digital images: The STEPanizer

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-59

  Tschanz, Stefan A ^a   Burri, P H ^a   Weibel, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Counting; Digital imaging; Electron microscopy; Light microscopy; Morphometry; Radiology; Software; Stereology; Test system; Tomography

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; RADIOLOGY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COUNTING; DIGITAL IMAGE; DIGITAL IMAGING; MORPHOMETRY; SIMPLE++; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE-TOOLS; STEREOLOGY; TEST SYSTEMS; WORK-FLOWS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER CELL; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGY; STEPANIZER; STEREOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS AND ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WORKFLOW;

EID: 79958774872     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2010.03481.x     Document Type: Article

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