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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2008 Jul 17;36(12):2111–2120. doi: 10.1007/s10439-008-9538-4

TABLE 1.

(a) Total number of chords (sum from all sections) in each lung from each mouse, at the different grid spacings. (b) Average number of chords in each section in all mice.

Mouse # 3 μm 7 μm 17 μm 34 μm 70 μm 140 μm 280 μm
(a)
1 229,931 114,485 57,315 28,657 14,354 7238 3528
2 185,449 92,813 46,789 23,184 11,498 5733 2879
3 216,887 108,343 54,255 27,144 13,593 6789 3410
4 206,435 103,119 51,583 25,767 12,929 6408 3294
5 234,946 117,397 58,665 29,432 14,727 7290 3731
6 170,349 85,063 42,666 21,359 10,685 5331 2696
7 223,135 107,599 53,932 26,954 13,438 6743 3373
8 128,231 64,002 32,055 16,029 7997 3963 1995
9 126,953 63,450 31,776 15,950 7927 3980 1938
10 254,248 127,027 63,415 31,744 15,903 7942 4033
11 202,533 101,041 50,741 25,322 12,630 6326 3152
(b)
Average chords per section 72,481 36,079 18,074 9037 4515 2254 1132
SEM 2467 1226 607 307 157 78 201

Note that the average chords in the lower table is not the average of the total chords in each lung, but rather the average number of chords measured per intact lung section.