Mathematical modeling of liver metastases tumour growth and control with radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 7225-7239

  Campbell, Adrienne ^a   Sivakumaran, Thiru ^a   Davidson, Melanie ^b   Lock, Michael ^a,c   Wong, Eugene ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^c LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL GROWTH; DYNAMICS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYMES; FUNCTIONS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); LIVER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CANCER MARKERS; DIFFERENTIAL MODELS; DYNAMICAL MODELS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTHS; LIVER CANCERS; LIVER METASTASIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MODEL PARAMETERS; POPULATION MODELS; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANS; REPOPULATION; SQUARED ERRORS; TUMOUR GROWTHS;

TUMORS;

LIVER ENZYME; TUMOR MARKER;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CELL; DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETER; POPULATION MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ALGORITHMS; CELL PROLIFERATION; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 58149229421     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/24/015     Document Type: Article

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