STEREOLOGICAL METHOD OF DETERMINING SPATIAL CORRELATION OF OBLONG OBJECTS Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC G06T7/60 A61B8/13 

FIELD: physics, measurement.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of stereological analysis. The technical effect is achieved by the following: a sample is taken from the body, material, or medium containing the objects under investigation, in which cross-section profiles (CSPs) of the objects may be found. On the sample, an area for analysis of CSPs of the objects (hereinafter referred to as the window) is selected, and object CSPs are found in the window. The aggregate of the object CSPs in the window is represented as a planar point process, each point of which characterises the position of one CSP. For this planar point process, a pair correlation function is determined, being an evaluation of the reduced pair correlation function of the objects under investigation in the space. The pair correlation function of the objects under investigation is used for drawing a conclusion on the spatial correlation of the oblong objects in the body, material, or medium containing them.

EFFECT: increase in reliability of measurement of the spatial correlation of oblong objects.

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