Can anybody suggest a good reference for understanding the fundamentals of Stereology ?

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Florian Schäfer

Ohser, Joachim / Muecklich, Frank

Statistical Analysis of Microstructures in Materials Science

John Sosa

John Russ's Practical Stereology

And if you'd like to try an intuitive and educational software designed by Materials Scientists: MIPAR at http://MIPAR.us

Lars Karlsson

A nice introduction on the subject, although many examples from the biomedical field, is:

C.V. Howard & M.G. Reed (2010)

Unbiased Stereology: Three Dimensional Measurement in Microscopy

2nd edition, Garland Science