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""Fractals in Biology and Medicine, Volume 2"" explores the potential of the fractal geometry in understanding how to analyse natural shapes. The volume devotes special emphasis to the complex field of human tumours.

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Author:   G. Losa ,  T. Nonnenmacher ,  D. Merlini ,  Ewald R. Weibel
Publisher:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Imprint:   Birkhauser Verlag AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9783034898348

ISBN 10:   3034898347
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   14 December 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Fractal Design of Biological Structures and Functions.- Some Remarks on Fractals and Dynamical Systems (Classical/Stochastic) in Biology.- Dynamical Generators of Lévy Statistics in Biology.- Biological Cellular Morphometry-Fractal Dimensions, Lacunarity and Multifractals.- Spatial Pattern Analysis using Chaos Theory: A Nonlinear Deterministic Approach to the Histological Texture of Tumours.- Asymptotic Fractals.- Special Approaches of Image Analysis to the Measurement of Fractal Dimension.- Fractal Analysis of Landscapes in Medicine.- Fractal Regional Myocardial Blood Flows: The Anatomical Basis.- Arterial Vasomotion: Effect of Mechanical Forces and Evidence of Nonlinear Dynamics.- Dynamical Analysis of Heartbeat Interval Time Series After Cardiac Transplantation.- Low-Dimensional Chaos in Large Conductance Ca-Activated K-Channel Gating Kinetics.- p-Adic Model for Population Growth.- Evolution of Life in a Fractal Universe.- Chromatin Structure, DNA Organisation and Nuclear Membranes.- Fractal Characterization of Nuclear Texture in Breast Cytology: Frequency and Spatial Domain Approaches.- Fractal Dimension of Perinuclear Membrane and of Nuclear Membrane-bound Heterochromatin in Human Breast Cancer Cells Targeted by Steroid Hormones.- Fractal Analysis of Heterochromatin Nuclear Domains in Lymphocytes.- Fractal Approach to the Study of Chromatin Texture.- Fractal Dimension of Lymphocytic Nuclear Membrane in Mycosis Fungoides and Chronic Dermatitis.- Modeling the Dynamics of Nonenzymatic and Enzymatic Nucleotide Processes by Fractal Dimension.- A Headful of T4 Coliphage DNA Packaged to Fasces-Like Globules in Fractal Models.- Fractal Structures in Tumours and Diseases.- Complexity in Tumour Growth Patterns.- Fractal Dimension of Epithelial-Connective Tissue Interface inBasal Cell Carcinoma of the Skin.- Fractal Geometry of the Human Renal Arterial Tree in Development, Health and Disease.- Discriminating Properties of Wide Dynamic Range Neurons by Means of Universal Multifractals.- Fractal Analysis of Nuclear Medicine Scans.- Changes in Bone Strength during Repair Predicted by Fractal Analysis of Radiographs.- Fractal Distribution of Serosal Lymphatics.- NMR Studies of Anomalous Diffusion in Biological Tissues: Experimental Observation of Lévy Stable Processes.

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