Title | Fractals in Biology and Medicine [electronic resource] / edited by Gabriele A. Losa, Danilo Merlini, Theo F. Nonnenmacher, Ewald R. Weibel |
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Imprint | Basel : Birkhรคuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8936-0 |
Descript | IX, 374 p. online resource |
Fractal Design of Biological Structures and Functions -- Some Remarks on Fractals and Dynamical Systems (Classical/Stochastic) in Biology -- Dynamical Generators of Lรฉvy 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 in Basal 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 Lรฉvy Stable Processes