Stereological analysis

The characterisation of materials is a central necessity of modern materials science. Effectively, it signifies making precise distinctions between different specimens of what is nominally the same material. The concept covers qualitative and quantitative analysis of chemical composition and its variation between phases the examination of the spatial distribution of grains, phases and of minor constituents the crystal structures present and the extent, nature and distribution of structural imperfections (including the stereological analysis outlined in Chapter 5). 

Guiot, P., Baudhuin, P., and Gotfredsen, C. (1980). Morphological characterization of liposome suspensions by stereological analysis of freeze fracture replicas from spray frozen samples, J. Microsc., 120, 159-174. 

Tables I and II report the morphological indices and the anisotropy measures obtained by Falcone et al. (2004b), respectively, from the stereological analysis and the eigenanalysis of the MIL tensor in order to characterize the inner crumb micro structure. By using these indices, it is possible to compare with high sensitivity the spatial arrangement of the cell walls in bread samples.

Selemon LD, Begovic A. 2007. Stereologic analysis of the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus in normal and schizophrenic subjects. Psychiatry Res 151 1-10. 

Smart, C.C., and Trewavas, A.J., 1983, Abscisis-acid-induced turion formation in Spirodela polyrrhiza L. II. Ultrastructure of the turion a stereological analysis. Plant Cell Environ. 6 515-120. 

Schumann CS, Amaral DG (2006) Stereological analysis of amygdala neuron number in autism. J. 

Previous work (3, 6) has suggested that the spacing between the rubber domains is the critical parameter which correlates the DBTT with rubber content and particle-size. Work to date, however, appears to have calculated this interparticle spacing from the measured particle-size distribution and the known volume fraction of rubber added to the blend, rather than from a direct stereological analysis of electron micrographs. The former method assumes that there is no occlusion of the nylon continuous phase within the rubber particles during mixing. 

Cabric M, Appell HJ, Resic A. Stereological analysis of capillaries in electrostimulated human skeletal muscles. Int J Sports Med 1987 8 327-330. 

All micromechanical relations presented in this chapter are based on the volume fraetions of the constituent phases (i.e. one-point correlation fimctions and a special part of the two-point correlation functions) as the only input information. If complete two-point and three-point information would be available (e.g. from stereological analysis or 3D tomography), the Hashin-Shtrikman bounds (i.e. the two-point bounds) could be improved in principle, whieh leads to the three-point bounds due to [Beran Molyneux 1966] and [Milton Phan-Thien 1982], cf. also [Jeulin 2001, 2002, Markov 2000, Milton 2002, Sobczyk Kirkner 2001, Torquato 2000, 2002]. Of course, in the case of dense alumina-zirconia composites it is quite... 

Boffa, D. J. Waka, J. Thomas, D. Suh, S. Curran, K. Sharma, V. K. Besada, M. Muthukumar, T. Yang, H. Sufhanthiran, M. Manova, K. Measurement of apoptosis of intact human islets by confocal optical sectioning and stereologic analysis of YO-PRO-1-stained islets. Transplantation 2005, 79, 842-845. 

Geiser M, Im Hof V, Gehr P, Cruz-Orive LM. Histological and stereological analysis of particle retention in the conducting airways of hamster lungs. J Aerosol Med... 

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