The dynamic evolution of the power exponent in a universal growth model of tumors

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 240, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 459-463

  Guiot, Caterina ^a   Delsanto, Pier Paolo ^a,b   Carpinteri, Alberto ^b   Pugno, Nicola ^b   Mansury, Yuri ^c   Deisboeck, Thomas S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cancer growth; Fractal dimension; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRAGMENTATION; GROWTH; GROWTH THEORY; TUMOR;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 33646241059     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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