Vasculature

PARAMETER TISSUE PROBE
VOLUME FRACTION vessels and vessel wall components e.g. tunica media AREA FRACTION FRACTIONATOR
LENGTH vessels SPACEBALLS or IMAGE PLANE AS PROBE
NUMBER nodes** or endothelial tip cells OPTICAL FRACTIONATOR
CONNECTIVITY vessel network CONNECTIVITY
SURFACE vessel walls ISOTROPIC FAKIR or MERZ
THICKNESS vessel walls ORTHOGONAL INTERCEPTS

**by assigning each node a valence the NUMBER of segments and microvessels can be estimated

Thick sections

Thin sections

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