Focused Array Hyperthermia Applicator: Theory and Experiment

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-31, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 38-46

  Gee, Walter ^a,b   Lee, Shung Wu ^a   Bong, Nelson K ^a   Cain, Charles A ^a   Mittra, Raj ^a   Magin, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; APPLICATOR; HYPERTHERMIA; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NONHUMAN; THEORETICAL STUDY;

HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MATHEMATICS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

ANTENNAS - RADIATION; ANTENNAS, HORN - PHASED ARRAYS; ELECTRIC HEATING, DIELECTRIC - MICROWAVES; MICROWAVE DEVICES - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVES - FOCUSING;

ANTENNA NEAR-FIELD FOCUSING; HALF-POWER ANTENNA BEAMWIDTH; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; TUMOR THERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0021285968     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1984.325368     Document Type: Article

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