Estimating the growth kinetics of experimental tumors from as few as two determinations of tumor size: Implications for clinical oncology

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 808-815

  Chignola, Roberto ^a   Foroni, Roberto Israel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b Neurosurgery Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gompertzian kinetics; in vivo data; Mathematical computation; Spheroids; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CLINICAL LABORATORIES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH KINETICS;

CLINICAL INFORMATION; PATIENTS; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SIZE;

TUMORS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CURVE FITTING; GOMPERTZIAN KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CODING; RAT; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SPHEROID; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 18744412381     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.845219     Document Type: Article

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