Estancia en el Clinical Oncology Bioinformatics Group,
University College London (Reino Unido).
Desde: 09/02/2006 Hasta: 16/02/2006 (7 días)
During his stay, Rubén worked with Dr Amos Folarin as part of UCL's Clinical Oncology Bioinformatics Group, carrying out a feasibility study for the purpose of applying a parallel implementation of the two-phase lattice-Boltzmann flow simulation he developed at Edinburgh University to the simulation of blood flow in tumour vessels (digitally rendered from corrossion cast micro-computed tomography). Since blood mainly consists of two components: plasma & a colloidal suspension of red-blood cells, a two phase model may provide substantial improvements on the single phase treatment of blood at the meso/microscopic scale.
Preliminary results are encouraging, and we expect future collaborations will allow more accurate simulations of tumour vasculature.