Stereology

Introduction: Problems of Stereology.- Opening Session.- Structure in Space and its Appearance on Sections.- The Tetrahedron as a Unit of Volumetric Measurement.- Special Lecture.- Sectioned Textures in the Decorative Arts.- General Quantitative Stereology.- Quantitative Evaluation of Sectioned Material.- Measurement of Extracellular Space in Developing Rat Brain from Electron Micrographs.- A Stereological Method for Measuring the Specific Surface Area of Metallic Powders.- Roentgen-Stereometry and Sectional Display of Computed Three-dimensional Dose Distributions in Radio-Therapy.- Morphometry of the Small Myelinated Fibres of the Cortex Cerebri.- Comparison of some Quantitative Studies of Trabecular Bone.- Morphometrische Untersuchungen am Labyrinth der Meerschweinchenplazenta.- Ultrastructural Equilibria in Liver Cell Cytoplasm.- Serial Section Analysis of Grain Structures.- Surface Area and Length of Convolutions of the Cerebral Cortex.- Quantitative Measurements from Projected Images.- Shape Determination.- Formbestimmung von Körpern aus ebenen Schnitten.- The Relationship Between Mean Surface Curvature and the Stereologic Counting Measurements.- Interpretation and Misinterpretations of the Microscopic Image.- A New Method for Measuring Strain Distribution.- The Stereo Ultrastructure of the Corneal Surfaces in the "Stereoscan".- Scanning Electron Microscopy Applications for Microtopography.- Sampling and Statistical Analysis.- Sampling of Material and Statistical Analysis in Quantitative Stereology.- A Comparison of Sampling Procedures in a Structured Cell Population.- Computer Analysis of Pancreatic Islet Tissue.- Methodical Difficulties in Morphometry of the Neuropil of Nervous Tissue.- Stereoscopy, Photogrammetry.- A Method of RadiologicalStereo-Orthometry.- Stereology and Biophotogrammetry.- The Stereoultrastructure of Natural and Artificial Surfaces of Biological Materials.- Cranioencephalic Stereo-Topometry.- After Dinner Talk.- Structure and Rotation of Barred and Spiral Galaxies Interpreted by Methods of Hyperstereology (i.e. extrapolation from n- to (n+1)-Dimensional Space).- Size Determination.- The Determination of the Size Distribution of Particles in an Opaque Material from a Measurement of the Size Distribution of their Sections.- Size Distribution of Particles Derived from the Size Distribution of their Sections.- Size Distribution of Cubic Particles.- Determination of the Beta Granule Mass in Pancreatic Islets using Linear Scanning Methods.- Unfolding Particle Size Distributions.- A Simple Formula for the Calculation of Spatial Size Distributions from Data Found by Lineal Analysis.- The Direct Determination of the Number of Convex Particles Per Unit Volume and the Moments of Their Size Distribution by an Intercept Analysis on a Section.- Number of Particles in Unit Volume.- Number of Particles Per Unit Volume.- The Calculation of the Mean Caliper Diameter of a Body for Use in the Analysis of the Number of Particles Per Unit Volume.- Anisotropy, Orientation in Space.- Determination of Structural Anisotropy.- A Revised Table for the Rapid Determination of the Orientation of Face-Centered Cubic Metals from Octahedral Traces.- Sequence-Analysis, A New Method for the Quantitative Determination of the Arrangement of Phases in Opaque Samples.- Topology as Related to Stereology.- Measurement of Topological Parameters.- A Study of Contact and Contiguity of Dispersions in Opaque Samples.- The Topological Properties of Structural Components.- Methods in General.- A System of Basic Stereologic Formulae.- Graphische Methoden in der Stereologie.- Automatic Measuring and Counting Devices and Instrumentation.- Automatic Measuring and Scanning Devices in Stereology.- A Semi-Automatic System for Stereologic Work in Light and Electron Microscopy.- A System for Stereometric Analysis, Using the Electron Microprobe.- A Computer-Linked, Scanning, Microspectrophotometer Using the Two-Wavelength Method.- Application of Computers to Quantitative Analysis of Microstructures.- The Metals Research Image Analysing Computer.- Rationalization in Direct Microscopical Measurement.- Morphometric Microscope with Automatic Sampling Stage.- Reconstruction from Serial Sections.- Reconstruction from Serial Sections.- Glass Plate Reconstruction from Serial Sections Used in the Study of Neonatal Biliary Atresia.- The Technique of Polyplanetic Microscopy.- The Synthalyzer for Optical Reconstruction and Dissection of Structures in Three Dimensions.- An Investigation into Human Enamel Structure by an Optical Sectioning Technique.- Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Nervous Tissue.- Serial Section Cinematography.- Topology and Serial Section Cinematography Editor's Note.- Serial Section Cinematography.- An Automated Device For Cinematography of sequential Microscope Sections.- Demonstrations.- Demonstration of the Relationship between Crystal Orientation and Octahedral Traces.- Bio-Photogrammetry.- Automatic Sampling Stage Microscope and Data Print-Out Unit.- "Stereoscan" Scanning Electron Microscope.- Author Index.