Dielectric Properties of Solid Tumors During Normothermia and Hyperthermia

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-31, Issue 11, 1984, Pages 725-728

  Peloso, Robert ^a   Tuma, David T ^a   Jain, Rakesh K ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES - MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; HYPERTHERMIA; NEOPLASTIC TISSUES; NORMOTHERMIA; SOLID TUMORS;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0021523452     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1984.325399     Document Type: Article

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