title: Computer-assisted morphometric analysis for three-dimensional cell shape.
abstract: Quantitative, morphometric analysis of 3-dimensional cell shape may prove to be a valuable adjunct to scanning electron microscopy and to the evaluation of epithelial transport phenomena. Therefore, to facilitate the wider use of cell shape analysis, a computer-assisted technique has been developed to supplement or replace the usually tedious and otherwise limited manual techniques previously available. The computer programs described here have been designed to run in a small laboratory computer, do not require a large amount of operator time, and are shown to provide an accuracy and efficiency not practical with manual procedures.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002477:Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D003201:Computers; D003584:Cytological Techniques; D008433:Mathematics; D011817:Rabbits