Inverse geometric approach for the simulation of close-to-circular growth. The case of multicellular tumor spheroids

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 839-850

  Brutovsky, B ^a   Horvath, D ^a   Lisy, V ^b  

^a P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Fractal behavior; Genetic algorithms; Tumor growth

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INVERSE KINEMATICS;

FRACTAL BEHAVIOR; INVERSE GEOMETRIC APPROACH; MULTICELLULAR TUMOR SPHEROIDS; TUMOR GROWTH;

TUMORS;

EID: 36649011240     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.10.036     Document Type: Article

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