A Computational Model of the Electromagnetic Heating of Biological Tissue with Application to Hyperthermic Cancer Therapy

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-30, Issue 12, 1983, Pages 797-805

  Van Den Berg, Peter M ^a   De Hoop, A T ^a   Segal, A ^a   Praagman, N ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Laboratory of Applied Analysis Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences Delft University of Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS - COMPUTER SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC HEATING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD IN TIME; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD IN SPACE; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

BONE; CANCER THERAPY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPERTHERMIA; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PELVIS; THERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0020970764     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1983.325081     Document Type: Article

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