Initial Results for Automated Computational Modeling of Patient-Specific Electromagnetic Hyperthermia

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 226-237

  Piket May, Melinda J ^a   Taflove, Allen ^a   Lin, Wei Chung ^a   Katz, Daniel S ^a   Sathiaseelan, V ^b   Mittal, B B ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER VISION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE-TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; MODEL PATIENT-SPECIFIC EM HYPERTHERMIA; WAVEGUIDE APPLICATOR;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; HYPERTHERMIA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; THIGH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0026832956     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.125007     Document Type: Article

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