Moderne Bildverarbeitungsverfahren als Unterstützung der räumlichen Rekonstruktion histologischer Strukturen

Summary Spatial reconstruction of anatomic and histologic structures is of increasing importance in biological and medical research. A special kind of disease — hereditary opalescent dentine (HOD) — offered a good chance for the use of a comfortable image-analysis system (IBAS, Kontron) in combination with a special software for three-dimensional reconstruction. New aspects of the morphologic organisation of a key structure of HOD — the giant dentinal canals — could be shown, thus supporting the hypothesis of a vasal origin.