Coupling biomechanics to a cellular level model: An approach to patient-specific image driven multi-scale and multi-physics tumor simulation

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 193-199

  May, Christian P ^a   Kolokotroni, Eleni ^b   Stamatakos, Georgios S ^b   Büchler, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; Biomechanics; Finite element methods; In silico oncology; Multiscale cancer modeling; Pressure effects

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; MECHANICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MECHANICAL PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053590685     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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