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ArticleScientific reports2019

A cellular automaton model for spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia treatments.

Sarah C Brüningk, Peter Ziegenhein, Ian Rivens, Uwe Oelfke, Gail Ter Haar

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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5 authors.

Sarah C BrüningkJoint Department of Physics at The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. sarah.brueningk@icr.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3176-1032
Peter ZiegenheinJoint Department of Physics at The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4703-8623
Ian RivensJoint Department of Physics at The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Uwe OelfkeJoint Department of Physics at The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Gail Ter HaarJoint Department of Physics at The Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK 16464Cancer Research UK 19727
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thermo-radiosensitisation is a promising approach for treatment of radio-resistant tumours such as those containing hypoxic subregions. Response prediction and treatment planning should account for tumour response heterogeneity, e.g. due to microenvironmental factors, and quantification of the biological effects induced. 3D tumour spheroids provide a physiological in vitro model of tumour response and a systems oncology framework for simulating spheroid response to radiation and hyperthermia is presented. Using a cellular automaton model, 3D oxygen diffusion, delivery of radiation and/or hyperthermia were simulated for many ([Formula: see text]) individual cells forming a spheroid. The iterative oxygen diffusion model was compared to an analytical oxygenation model and simulations were calibrated and validated against experimental data for irradiated (0-10 Gy) and/or heated (0-240 CEM

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Models, BiologicalCombined Modality TherapyComputational BiologyHCT116 CellsHumansHyperthermia, InducedNeoplasmsSpheroids, CellularTumor Hypoxia

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PMID31776398
PMCPMC6881451

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