Effect of Surface Cooling and Blood Flow on the Microwave Heating of Tissue

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-25, Issue 3, 1978, Pages 313-316

  Foster, K R ^a   Kritikos, H N ^a   Schwan, H P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN COOLING; THERAPY; THERMOREGULATION;

BLOOD CIRCULATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD; HEAT; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

HEAT TRANSFER - TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MICROWAVES - APPLICATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

MICROWAVE HEATING;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0018200414     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1978.326313     Document Type: Article

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