Cross S S, Rogers S, Silcocks P B, Cotton D W
Department of Pathology, University of Sheffield Medical School, U.K.
J Pathol. 1993 Jul;170(3):311-3. doi: 10.1002/path.1711700315.
The fractal dimension of the boundary of trabecular bone in 62 biopsies was measured on histological sections using a box-counting method implemented on a microcomputer image analysis system. The calculated fractal dimension had a mean value of 0.99 with a normal distribution. Since this value is not greater than the topological dimension, trabecular bone, when examined by light microscopy, does not have a fractal structure. Conventional Euclidean dimensions will continue to be the most useful measurements in bone histomorphometry.
采用在微机图像分析系统上实现的盒计数法，在组织学切片上测量了62份活检标本中松质骨边界的分形维数。计算得到的分形维数平均值为0.99，呈正态分布。由于该值不大于拓扑维数，因此在光学显微镜检查时，松质骨不具有分形结构。传统的欧几里得维数在骨组织形态计量学中仍将是最有用的测量方法。
