METHODS OF QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS APPLIED TO VASCULAR CORROSION CASTS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Vascular corrosion casts combined with scanning electron microscopy provide a powerful morphologic understanding of the vascular microarchitecture. Several bidimensional (2D) and threedimensional (3D) systems, as well as mathematical models have been proposed aiming at the quantification of vascular models, in order to study the hemodynamic optimality principles ruling those circulatory systems. This paper aims to accomplish a literature review of this evolution from the foremost thesis about optimality principles, vital to the knowledge of vascular hemodynamics, up to the state-of-the-art 3D morphometry systems.