A quantitative method for the estimation of the degree of uniformity and isotropy of the structures of the central nervous system in cytoarchitectonic preparations.

The statistical method for the estimation of the degree of uniformity and isotropy of structures in brain sections proposed in this paper allows integral estimates to be made of the character of the distribution of nerve cells during the formation of the central nervous system. The method is convenient to work with in photomicrographs. Automatic computerized counting of cell elements takes little time and involves a minimum of images.