The Gompertzian curve reveals fractal properties of tumor growth

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 665-674

  Waliszewski, Przemyslaw ^a,b   Konarski, Jerzy ^b  

^a Strus Hospital   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THEOREM PROVING; TUMORS;

SCALAR QUANTITY;

FRACTALS;

EID: 0037408903     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(02)00469-1     Document Type: Article

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