Design Optimization of Interstitial Antennas

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1989, Pages 238-246

  Iskander, Magdy F ^a   Tumeh, Amer M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b BSD Medical Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS--MICROWAVE; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORKS--TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; IMPEDANCE MATCHING;

INTERSTITIAL ANTENNAS; LOSSY TRANSMISSION LINE; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA; MULTISECTION INSULATED ANTENNAS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

HYPERTHERMIA; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 0024617715     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.16471     Document Type: Article

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