A MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF RADIATION AND POPU- LATION OF CELL COLONIES. I. TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM-WALK MODEL,

Abstract

To study the effect of radiation on the popu lation of cell colonies a simple model is constructed that follows a cell through a two dimensional random walk, where one dimension represents state of growth and the other represents state of health or number of sites damaged. The cell is subjected to radiation exposure at prescribed times and doses which can be varied. The cell will eventually either divide or become sterile. An IBM 7090 FORTRAN program of the Monte Carlo procedure presents a statistical summary of results at the absorbing barrier. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0411864

Entities

People

  • Bella Kotkin
  • Mortimer Elkind
  • Richard E. Bellman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematics
  • Models
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Radiation
  • Random Walk
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Microbial Pathology