title: 3D base: a geometrical data base system for the analysis and visualisation of 3D-shapes obtained from parallel serial sections including three different geometrical representations.
abstract: In this paper we discuss a geometrical data base that includes three different geometrical representations of one and the same reconstructed 3D shape: the contour-pile, the voxel enumeration, and the triangulation of a surface. The data base is tailored for 3D shapes obtained from plan-parallel serial sections. It is explained how this geometrical data base is useful with the different processing approaches of a 3D shape, such as analysis and visualisation. Methods of conversion between the geometrical representations are discussed. Examples of the operation of the data base as it is embedded in a data base management system are given by illustrations of retrieval of geometrical information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Embryology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Verbeek
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: de Groot
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Huijsmans
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Lamers
authors.forename: I T
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Young
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D003626:Data Display; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005314:Embryonic and Fetal Development / Q000235:genetics; D015870:Gene Expression; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D008867:Microtomy; D051381:Rats; D012985:Software Design; D012986:Software Validation