Practical guidelines for a morphometric study
Timo Romppanen,
Department of Pathology, University of Kuopio, P.O.Box 6, SF-70211 Kuopio 21, Finland
Yrjö Collan,
Department of Pathology, University of Kuopio, P.O.Box 6, SF-70211 Kuopio 21, Finland
Abstract
The article gives practical advice for those planning to perform a morphometric study. The following aspects are handled: the definitions of histological parameters, the morphometric model, the selection of stereologic and morphometric parameters, the methods for stereologic and morphometric measurements, the apparatus for point counting methods, microscopic magnifications, grids, sampling problems, tissue processing, the relevance of stereologic formulas, and the reproducibility of measurements. An exercise on point counting methods is included.
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Timo Romppanen & Yrjö Collan, «Practical guidelines for a morphometric study», Acta Stereologica [En ligne], Volume 2 (1983), Number 2 - Proceedings of the second symposium on morphometry in morphological diagnoses, september 7-9, 1983, Kuopio, Finland - Dec. 1983, 274 - 297 URL : https://popups.uliege.be/0351-580x/index.php?id=4194.