Traditional single-reaction Arrhenius models have been successfully used for many years in burn studies[1–3] and have been adapted and used to predict quantitative histologic results in laser, RF and microwave heating at high temperatures.[4–6] The single reaction kinetics model also forms the basis for the time scaling ratio as is currently used in calculating the cumulative equivalent minutes (CEM) assessment of tumor hyperthermia treatments.[7] Recently, it has been clearly demonstrated that these models are not acceptably accurate predictors of the early stages of cell death processes in hyperthermic heating — moderate temperature rises (< ∼15 C) for times from several minutes to hours.[8, 9] A typical ensemble of cell survival curves has an initial slowly-developing shoulder region, a constant-rate region and, often, a “foot’, as it were, which has a much slower death rate. Simple first-order Arrhenius predictions are constant-rate models, only, and substantially over-estimate population cell death in the early stages of heating.
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ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference
June 20–23, 2012
Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA
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- Bioengineering Division
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978-0-7918-4480-9
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Considerations in Modeling Cell Death Processes
John A. Pearce
John A. Pearce
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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John A. Pearce
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
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SBC2012-80191, pp. 935-936; 2 pages
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July 19, 2013
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Pearce, JA. "Considerations in Modeling Cell Death Processes." Proceedings of the ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference. ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, Parts A and B. Fajardo, Puerto Rico, USA. June 20–23, 2012. pp. 935-936. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/SBC2012-80191
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