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 Radiological Stereo-Orthometry.- Stereology and Biophotogrammetry.- The Stereoultrastructure of Natural and Artificial Surfaces of Biological Materials.- Cranioencephalic Stereo-Topometry.- After Dinner Talk.- Structure and Rotation of