Sprout branching of tumour capillary network growth: Fractal dimension and multifractal structure

Chinese Physics Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1746-1749

  Kou, Jian Long ^a   Lu, Hang Jun ^a,b   Wu, Feng Min ^a   Xu, You Sheng ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DELIVERY; FRACTAL DIMENSION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CAPILLARY NETWORK; GROWTH PROCESS; MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRUM; MULTIFRACTAL STRUCTURE; NETWORK GROWTH; STOCHASTIC GROWTH; TUMOR IMAGES; UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES; VASCULAR NETWORK;

TUMORS;

EID: 46749119431     PISSN: 0256307X     EISSN: 17413540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/25/5/061     Document Type: Article

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