METALLOGRAPHY 91

LETTER

A Fortran IV Program for Quantimet 720 Image Analyses

Data Reduction *

K. L. WALTERS, H. D. LEWIS, AND K. A. JOHNSON

University of California, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544

The code I M A G E was written to provide for statistical data reduction,

calculation of several stereological parameters, and particle size distribution
estimation.
For each type measurement the following statistics are calculated: mean,
standard deviation, variance, coefficients for skewness and kurtosis, and percent
difference of each data point from the mean of that measurement.
Stereological parameters such as volume fraction, mean chords size, mean
interparticle spacing, and surface area are calculated.
The particle size distribution estimation is based on a Spector [1] type analysis
using 15 chord sizes.
T h e code contains four plotting options including 35 m m and line printer
plots. A detailed write-up and listing of the code may be obtained from the
authors.

Reference

1. E. E. Underwood, Particle size distribution, in Quantitative Microscopy (R. T. DeHoff

and F. N. Rhines, Ed.), McGraw-Hill, New York: (1968), p. 151.
Accepted November 15, 1972

* Work performed under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Copyright 1973 by American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc.