Acta Stereologica Acta Stereologica -  Volume 6 (1987)  Supplement II (The commemorative-memorial volume: twenty-five years of stereology) - May 1987 

The corpuscle problem: reevaluation using the disector

Eva B. Jensen
Institute of Mathematics and Stereologic and Electron Microscopic Diabetes Research Laboratory, Institute of Clinical Experimental Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
Hans Jørgen G. Gundersen
Institute of Mathematics and Stereologic and Electron Microscopic Diabetes Research Laboratory, Institute of Clinical Experimental Research, Aarhus University, Denmark

Abstract

No other stereological problem but that of estimating the sphere size distribution from the profile distribution observed in a single section has been shown on so many occasions to be statistically ill-posed. In this paper, we reconsider the corpuscle problem and suggest a direct solution based on local spatial information. The key tool is the disector which uses information from two parallel sections simultaneously.

Keywords : corpuscle problem, disector, particles, spheres, systematic sampling

Pour citer cet article

Eva B. Jensen & Hans Jørgen G. Gundersen, «The corpuscle problem: reevaluation using the disector», Acta Stereologica [En ligne], Volume 6 (1987), Supplement II (The commemorative-memorial volume: twenty-five years of stereology) - May 1987, 105-122 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/0351-580x/index.php?id=2214.