{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(1)"],"submitter":["Calandra I"],"funding":["German Federal and Rhineland Palatinate funding"],"pubmed_abstract":["Many archeologists are skeptical about the capabilities of use-wear analysis to infer on the function of archeological tools, mainly because the method is seen as subjective, not standardized and not reproducible. Quantitative methods in particular have been developed and applied to address these issues. However, the importance of equipment, acquisition and analysis settings remains underestimated. One of those settings, the numerical aperture of the objective, has the potential to be one of the major factors leading to reproducibility issues. Here, experimental flint and quartzite tools were imaged using laser-scanning confocal microscopy with two objectives having the same magnification but different numerical apertures. The results demonstrate that 3D surface texture ISO 25178 parameter"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pagination":["6313"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6474883"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["The effect of numerical aperture on quantitative use-wear studies and its implication on reproducibility."],"pmcid":["PMC6474883"],"pubmed_authors":["Schunk L","Marreiros J","Paixao E","Gneisinger W","Hildebrandt A","Bob K","Pedergnana A","Calandra I"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The effect of numerical aperture on quantitative use-wear studies and its implication on reproducibility.","description":"Many archeologists are skeptical about the capabilities of use-wear analysis to infer on the function of archeological tools, mainly because the method is seen as subjective, not standardized and not reproducible. Quantitative methods in particular have been developed and applied to address these issues. However, the importance of equipment, acquisition and analysis settings remains underestimated. One of those settings, the numerical aperture of the objective, has the potential to be one of the major factors leading to reproducibility issues. Here, experimental flint and quartzite tools were imaged using laser-scanning confocal microscopy with two objectives having the same magnification but different numerical apertures. The results demonstrate that 3D surface texture ISO 25178 parameter","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019 Apr","modification":"2025-04-18T15:27:03.39Z","creation":"2019-06-06T22:58:37Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6474883","cross_references":{"pubmed":["31004088"],"doi":["10.1038/s41598-019-42713-w"]}}