Stereological Unfolding for Spheroidal Particles
Description
Stereological unfolding as implemented in this package consists in
the estimation of the joint size-shape-orientation distribution of spheroidal shaped
particles based on the same measured quantities of corresponding planar section
profiles. A single trivariate discretized version of the (stereological) integral
equation in the case of prolate and oblate spheroids is solved numerically by the
EM algorithm. The estimation of diameter distribution of spheres from planar sections
(Wicksell's corpuscle problem) is also implemented. Further, the package provides routines
for the simulation of a Poisson germ-grain process with either spheroids or spheres as grains
together with functions for planar sections.