Analysis of the Power Coupling from a Waveguide Hyperthermia Applicator into a Three-Layered Tissue Model

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 1989, Pages 1794-1801

  Nikita, Konstantina S ^a   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS--TISSUE; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; WAVEGUIDES;

FLANGED WAVEGUIDE; GALERKIN PROCEDURE; POWER COUPLING ANALYSIS; THREE-LAYERED TISSUE MODEL; WAVEGUIDE HYPERTHERMIA APPLICATOR;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0024765133     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.41046     Document Type: Article

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