Cycloids for Lv formulas

  • g2 Grid area

  • g2: Grid area
  • m: Section evaluation interval
  • :   Mean section cut thickness

or

  • : Number of counting frames
  • ∆: Section cut thickness
  • Ii: Intercepts
  • Pi: Test points
  • : Average number of intersections of projected images
  • : Test points per unit length of cycloid

  • m: Sampling fractions
  • ∆: Section cut thickness
  • a: Area
  • p: Number of test points
  • Pi: Test points

  • a: Area
  • l: Line length
  • m: Sampling fractions
  • Ii: Intercepts

  • VARSRS: Variance of systematic random sampling
  • : Estimated length per length
  • Ii : Intercepts

  • g: Grid size
  • Li: Line length at section i

  • Ii : Intercepts
  • Pi: Test points
  • n: Number of probes

 

R e f e r e n c e s

Artacho‐Pérula, E., Roldán‐Villalobos, R. (1995). Estimation of capillary length density in skeletal muscle by unbiased stereological methods: I. Use of vertical slices of known thickness The Anatomical Record, 241 (3), 337-344.

Gokhale, A. M. (1990). Unbiased estimation of curve length in 3‐D using vertical slices. Journal of Microscopy, 159 (2), 133–141.

Howard, C. V., Reed, M.G. (1998). Unbiased Stereology, Three-Dimensional Measurement in Microscopy (pp. 170–172). BIOS Scientific Publishers.

 

See Cycloids for Lv