The stereological unfolding problem for systems of homothetic particles

The stereological unfolding problem for spatial systems of particles is dis cussed. It is assumed that all particles have the same shape but different size. In contrast to the usual method of estimating the size distribution o f the particles from the sizes of section profiles a new technique is propo sed, exploiting the size as well as the shape of the observed profiles. The profile shapes carry additional information about the particle sizes. This leads to improved stereological estimation of size distribution. As a work ed example a system of cubic particles with random edge length is studied. (C) 1999 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. Al l rights reserved.