New Low-Profile Applicators for Local Heating of Tissues

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-31, Issue 1, 1984, Pages 28-37

  Johnson, Reg H ^a   James, J R ^a   Hand, J W ^b   Hopewell, J W ^c   Dunlop, Peter R C ^b   Dickinson, Robert J ^b  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPLICATOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPERTHERMIA; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MELANOMA; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; MUSCLES; SKIN; SWINE;

ANTENNAS - MICROWAVE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - PATIENT TREATMENT; ELECTRIC HEATING, DIELECTRIC - MICROWAVES; MICROWAVE DEVICES - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; TUMOR THERAPY;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0021285977     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1984.325367     Document Type: Article

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