(1) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(2) Atherosclerotic plaque intensity at 12 weeks, measured planimetrically, averaged 85.5% in HFD-fed animals vs 33.7% in pollen extract-treated rabbits.
(3) The inner and outer cerebrovascular spaces visualized by CT were measured planimetrically in 34 patients (6 men, 28 women; mean age 70.7 years) with senile depression.
(4) The planimetric area in the forward flow channel depends on the foetal intravillous blood volume.
(5) Serial sections of the whole seizure focus were evaluated in the light microscope, and the areas of protein extravasation were measured planimetrically.
(6) After repeated exeresis, the planimetric quantification of the wounds, by episcopic projection, shows that the healing process involves an immediate phase of dilatation followed by another of contraction.
(7) The size of myocardial infarctions following coronary artery occlusion in the rat was determined directly by measurement of creatine phosphokinase activity in homogenized whole left ventricles and by planimetric measurement of the area of the infarctions in histologic sections of serial slices of the left ventricles.
(8) This method avoids the difficulty of visual definition of ventricular borders in planimetric measurements.
(9) In the rat model infarct volume was determined 48 h after MCA occlusion by planimetric analysis and subsequent integration of the infarct areas on serial coronal slices.
(10) The planimetric measurements of the ultrasonic image that determined the size of the flank organ, with a reproducibility of about 10%, highly correlated with the measurements of histological sections.
(11) Computer-assisted planimetric computed tomography measurements showed that patients with misidentification syndromes had significantly larger right anterior horn areas of the lateral ventricle and significantly larger left anterior brain areas than did patients without such symptoms.
(12) Using planimetric analysis of stereoscopic optic disk photographs, we studied 21 optic nerve heads of 11 subjects who shared the common feature of optic cups that were larger than the mean + 2 S.D.
(13) Pathognomonic volumetric and planimetric cardiometric criteria were found.
(14) Standard histochemical assays were performed, and muscle fiber cross-sectional area was determined planimetrically.
(15) A method for planimetric measurement of areas of standardized dorsoventral projections of embryonal limbs was elaborated.
(16) Following infusion of 200 ml of Iopamidol for 1 hour the propagation of extravasated contrast medium around different types of 12 brain tumours was examined and imaged via CT. Increasing volume of expanding peritumoural contrast enhanced brain tissue was measured by integrating volumes of planimetrically measured enhanced area on CT slice of 0.5 cm in thickness.
(17) This effect could be substantiated planimetrically.
(18) Instead of the usual descriptive criteria commonly adopted for angiographic assessment of hydrostatic hydrocephalus, planimetric measuring methods were tried out.
(19) Using three radiographic standard projections, computerised planimetric analysis and cephalometric studies helped to explain radiological opacity in 26 patients.
(20) Planimetric measurements were performed on micrographs of comparable cell sections (through nucleus and Golgi zone) for the determiniation of cell, nuclear, cytoplasmic, and mitochondrial area.
Planimetry
Definition:
(n.) The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
(2) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
(3) beta-TG levels did not correlate with the volume of cerebral infarction as measured by planimetry from CT scans.
(4) Mean fiber area, determined by planimetry, was 49.1 and 34.5% greater following enlargement in male and female mice, respectively.
(5) Regurgitant volume was calculated from reverse aortic flow and was compared to jet length, area (by planimetry) and volume (from Simpson's rule).
(6) The lungs of bleomycin-treated dogs which received urokinase had less severe fibrosis and this was confirmed by morphometry with planimetry and the point counting method.
(7) In the interpretation of the tracings, significant differences were found for all measures, except planimetry; however, not all of these have the same practical implications.
(8) Gastric antral endoscopic pinch biopsies from a group of dyspeptic patients were analysed for acute and chronic inflammatory cell numbers in the lamina propria and surface epithelial layer using computer-linked graphic tablet planimetry, and independently graded for Campylobacter pylori (CP) infection using a visual scoring system with grade 1 assessed as patchy epithelial infection and grade 2 as a continuous layer of organisms on the mucosal surface extending into gastric pits.
(9) Amplitude, duration and magnitude (as measured by planimetry) of anal relaxation elicited by rectal distensions were related to rectal distending volume (P less than 0.001).
(10) Blood-brain barrier disruption was assessed by spread of Evans blue dye with planimetry.
(11) Human coronary arteries were perfusion-fixed; sectioned and their external and lumenal circumferences measured by microscopic planimetry.
(12) The surface areas of the wheal and flare responses were measured by planimetry.
(13) Planimetry of transmission electron micrographs showed 59% of the intraepithelial membranes were stained with lanthanum in the DNP-OA-sensitized and DNP-OA-challenged group; 39% in the saline-sensitized, DNP-OA-challenged group, and 26% in the DNP-OA-sensitized, BGG-challenged group.
(14) Planimetry of megakaryocytes (MK) was performed in bone marrow biopsies (BMBs) from patients with chronic myeloproliferative disorders (CMPD) to substantiate cytomorphologic differences in this cell lineage between the four main groups of CMPD.
(15) At the age of 7, mastoid X-rays were obtained and the air cell areas measured by planimetry.
(16) The menu for the data analysis provided for this device includes multilinear densitometry, with planimetry, area densitometry, measurement of anterior chamber depth and thickness of lens layers, determination of chamber angle and positioning of implanted intraocular lenses, and measurement of opaque areas in the retroillumination image.
(17) The effect of nitroglycerin and ibuprofen, given between 2 and 7 days after left anterior descending coronary artery ligation, on the mechanical resistance of the infarcted left ventricle to rupture or the rupture threshold (balloon technique), and on topography (computerized planimetry) and function (two-dimensional echocardiography) at 7 days (n = 32) and 42 days (n = 34) postligation was studied in 66 dogs randomly allocated to sham (no infarction, n = 22) and infarction subgroups (15 controls; 15 received nitroglycerin, 30 mg oral isosorbide dinitrate b.i.d.
(18) Three commonly used prostate volume measurement techniques were analyzed: planimetry, prolate ellipse volume calculation (HWL), and an ellipsoid volume measurement technique.
(19) NRL was quantified by planimetry of photographs of cut sections of brain.
(20) In this study we have measured gland size by planimetry,and cellular activity by autoradiography using tritiated thymidine and tritated histidine.