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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2006 May 24;141(2):875–888. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.04.035

Table 1.

Parameters for stereologic probes for experiment 1

Thalamic nuclei Optical fractionator and nucleator
Point counting, sampling frequency (μm) Section periodicity
Counting frame (μm) Disector height Sampling frequency (μm)
VB 30×30 20 250×250 250×250 Every 10th
MGN 25×25 20 250×250 250×250 Every 5th
dLGN 25×25 20 225×225 200×200 Every 5th