论文信息 - Errors in area measurement in thick sections, with special reference to trabecular bone

Errors in area measurement in thick sections, with special reference to trabecular bone

A formula is derived for the errors caused by section thickness in the measurement of the mean cross‐sectional areas of opaque material embedded in a transparent medium. There are some simplifying assumptions which can only be justified by limiting the maximum thickness of the section, but no restriction whatever is placed upon the shape of the opaque material.

W. J. Whitehouse

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