“Thermic End-Fire” Interstitial Applicator for Microwave Hyperthermia

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1135-1142

  Cerri, Graziano ^a   De Leo, Roberto ^a   Mariani Primiani, Valter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EQUIVALENT MAGNETIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVE HYPOTHERMIA; THERMIC END-FIRE INTERSTITIAL APPLICATOR;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0027615075     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.238538     Document Type: Article

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