Abstract
The area tangent count, first suggested as a stereological descriptor by F. N. Rhines in the decade of the fifties, is performed on any two dimensional structure that contains lineal features. A test line is swept across some delineated field of area A0, and a count is made of the number of times the line forms a tangent with some selected class of lineal features. The working stereological parameter, TA, is obtained by dividing this count of tangent points by the area sampled, A0.
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DeHoff, R.T. (1978). Stereological Uses of the Area Tangent Count. In: Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (eds) Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8_10
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