Stereology

Stereology ( from Greek stereos = fixed, physical) in the original sense of the word is the spatial interpretation of cuts. It deals with the relationship of sections through the body ( and projections) to the bodies themselves to this application methods are mainly the geometry and statistics, in particular the stochastic geometry.

Practical application finds the stereology in materials science, in particular in metallography, where on the basis of being etched sections a quantitative description of the material is obtained, as well as in histology.

Since it is usually not possible and necessary is the spatial structure to capture exactly, we restrict ourselves on express some essential properties of the material by parameters. These are obtained by the characteristic parameter of the planar surface (for example, the mean area of the individual crystals, crack frequency ) to be converted.

Many work in this area will be published Image Analysis and Stereology in the Journal of Microscopy and in the magazine. Both are official organs of the International Society for Stereology, a scientific society with members from many different fields of work, including Mathematics and statistics, medicine, materials science, geology, and computer science.