Stereology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction: Problems of Stereology

   1. Introduction: Problems of Stereology

      • Hans Elias

      Pages 1-11

3. Opening Session

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Structure in Space and its Appearance on Sections

      • Ewald R. Weibel

      Pages 15-26

   3. The Tetrahedron as a Unit of Volumetric Measurement

      • R. Buckminster Fuller

      Pages 27-29

4. Special Lecture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Sectioned Textures in the Decorative Arts

      • Cyril Stanley Smith

      Pages 33-46

5. General Quantitative Stereology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47

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   2. Quantitative Evaluation of Sectioned Material

      • Ervin E. Underwood

      Pages 49-60

   3. Measurement of Extracellular Space in Developing Rat Brain from Electron Micrographs

      • Joseph J. Pysh

      Pages 61-62

   4. A Stereological Method for Measuring the Specific Surface Area of Metallic Powders

      • Sarkis A. Saltikov

      Pages 63-64

   5. Roentgen-Stereometry and Sectional Display of Computed Three-Dimensional Dose Distributions in Radio-Therapy

      • Ulf F. Rosenow, Walter K. Leydolph

      Pages 65-65

   6. Morphometry of the Small Myelinated Fibres of the Cortex Cerebri

      • Herbert Haug

      Pages 66-67

   7. Comparison of some Quantitative Studies of Trabecular Bone

      • M. H. Bartley Jr., S. Targonski, S. Seamans, W. S. S. Jee

      Pages 68-69

   8. Morphometrische Untersuchungen am Labyrinth der Meerschweinchenplazenta

      • Gerhard A. Müller, Eckart H. Wernicke, Wolfgang M. Fischer

      Pages 70-71

   9. Ultrastructural Equilibria in Liver Cell Cytoplasm

      • Alden V. Loud

      Pages 72-73

   10. Serial Section Analysis of Grain Structures

       • J. H. Steele Jr.

       Pages 74-76

   11. Surface Area and Length of Convolutions of the Cerebral Cortex

       • Hans Elias, Steven Kolodny, David Schwartz

       Pages 77-78

   12. Quantitative Measurements from Projected Images

       • Ervin E. Underwood

       Pages 79-80

6. Shape Determination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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The Second International Congress for Stereology, again, has brought together scientists from very diverse discipl ines for discussion of problems concerning the recognition of three-dimensional structure, problems which confront those who study materials, rocks, biological systems or heavenly bodies. The program was organized into sessions each dealing with a special type of structural problem regardless of systems in the study of which these problems occur. Since all natural sciences have similar structural questions to investigate, discourses among biologists, metallurgists etc. were intense. Subject areas were not separated during the Congress. No concurrent sessions were held. Each participant had the opportunity to hear every paper. This re­ sulted in an unusually high attendance. During the last session, after five and a half days of intense work almost half the participants were still present in the lecture hall. Each of us was fascinated with what he was able to learn from fellow­ stereologists who studied different sectors of nature. Friendshipswere establ ished across oceans and across discipl inary boundaries. Each session was introduced by a key-note lecture didactical, meth­ odological and theoretical in nature. These key-note lectures can be recognized in this volume by their greater length, 12 pages being allotted to each key-note speaker. Collectively they constitute al­ most a textbook of stereology. Contributed papers in each problem category deal with appl ications.

• crystal
• electron
• electron microscopy
• metals
• microscopy
• scanning electron microscope
• topology

• Department of Anatomy, Chicago Medical School, USA

  Hans Elias

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