Excerpt from Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch, Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health: Annual Report Fy 1980

Enable rational transfer of in vitro thermodynamic and kinetic data to in vivo cases.

Predict effective dose schedules of anticancer drugs in individual patients with particular emphasis on intraperitoneal drug administration.

Methods Employed: Mathematical models are developed from physicochemical, physiological, and anatomical information and the principles of chemical reaction engineering. Resulting sets of differential equations are solved analytically or numerically and compared with experimental data. Uncertainties are clarified by additional experiments and model modification.

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