Figure 1.
Cross sectional schematic of a solid tumor that shows the three different regions of a solid tumor, IFP distribution, drug concentration and filtration distribution from blood vessels.
Figure 2.
Capillary microcirculation schematic and different types of pressure.
Figure 3.
Two types of boundary conditions at the outer edge of the tissue.
Table 1.
Material properties used in numerical simulations, as taken from [13].
Figure 4.
Interstitial velocity distribution in a 1 cm radius tumor, different values of , Eq. (16).
Figure 5.
Dimensionless interstitial pressure distribution in the same tumor, different values of .
Figure 6.
Interstitial pressure distribution in the same tumor ().
Figure 7.
Three dimensional plot of Fig. 6, dimensionless interstitial pressure distribution, in the same tumor ().
Figure 8.
Comparison of the current paper with experimental data (mammary adenocarcinoma s.c.) by Boucher et al. [15].
Figure 9.
Interstitial velocity distribution in a 1.4 cm radius tumor and normal tissue.
Figure 10.
Interstitial pressure distribution in a 1.4 cm radius tumor and normal tissue.
Figure 11.
Interstitial pressure distribution in a 1 cm radius tumor, as a function of the dimensionless radius for different necrotic radii.
Figure 12.
Interstitial pressure distribution at the center of a 1 cm radius tumor, as a function of the dimensionless necrotic radius.
Figure 13.
Interstitial pressure distribution at the center of different tumors, as a function of the dimensionless necrotic radius.
Figure 14.
Interstitial pressure distribution in a 0.5 cm radius tumor, as a function of the dimensionless radius for different necrotic radii.
Figure 15.
Interstitial pressure distribution in a 0.25 cm radius tumor, as a function of the dimensionless radius for different necrotic radii.
Figure 16.
Interstitial pressure distribution in a 0.1 cm radius tumor, as a function of the dimensionless radius for different necrotic radii.