A model of fluid flow in solid tumors

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 181-194

  Pozrikidis, C ^a   Farrow, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element modeling; Capillary flow; Drug delivery; Solid tumors

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HYDRAULICS; POROUS MATERIALS; TUMORS;

POISEUILLE LAW;

CAPILLARY FLOW;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CAPILLARIES; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HEMORHEOLOGY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NEOPLASMS; POROSITY; VEINS;

EID: 0037226277     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1540103     Document Type: Article

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