Lester J Layfield, Leslie Dodd, Magda Esebua
World Health Organization Reporting System for Soft Tissue Cytopathology: Risk of malignancy and reproducibility of categories among observers
Diagnostic cytopathology
nibased single crystal superalloys contain microstructural regions separated lowangle grain boundaries gives rise phenomenon mosaicity literature type defect associated deformation dendrites bridgman solidification present study introduces novel serial sectioning method allows rationalize mosaicity basis spatial dendrite growth optical widefield micrographs taken series cross sections evaluated using quantitative image analysis allowed explore growth directions close 2500 dendrites large specimen volume approximately 450 mm3 application tomography combination rotation vector baseline electron backscatter diffraction method allowed analyze small angular differences evolve early stages solidification found microstructure consists dendrites individual growth directions deviate 4 average growth direction dendrites generally individual dendrite growth directions coincide crystallographic 001 directions quantitative evaluation rich data sets obtained present method aims contributing better understanding elementary processes govern competitive dendrite growth crystal mosaicity