A model to simulate the oxygen distribution in hypoxic tumors for different vascular architectures

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Espinoza, Ignacio ^a,b   Peschke, Peter ^a   Karger, Christian P ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

modeling of oxygen distribution; radiotherapy; tumor hypoxia; vascular fraction

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; OXYGEN; RADIOTHERAPY;

DISTANCE DISTRIBUTIONS; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; OXYGEN DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE STRENGTH EXCHANGE METHODS; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TUMOR HYPOXIA; VASCULAR FRACTIONS;

TUMORS;

ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BLOOD VOLUME; COMPUTER MODEL; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; NEOPLASM; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL HYPOXIA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; CELL HYPOXIA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; OXYGEN;

EID: 84881648918     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4812431     Document Type: Article

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