# Calculating distance using Maurer distance map

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/calculating-distance-using-maurer-distance-map/1848>\
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**Created:** [January 15, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/calculating-distance-using-maurer-distance-map/1848 "2018-01-15T18:43:46Z")\
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> [@ytaneja](#):
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> What are the units that you have in the histogram? 1100 (pixels, mm, microns?) difference in the models

It is a histogram. Y axis is count, which is the number of model points in that distance bin.

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