The Use of a Current Sheet Applicator Array for Superficial Hyperthermia: Incoherent Versus Coherent Operation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 694-698

  Prior, Michael V ^a   Hand, Jeffrey W ^a   Lamaitre, Gaston ^c   Schneider, Christoph J ^c   van Dijk, Jan D P ^c  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

CURRENT SHEET APPLICATORS; EFFECTIVE FIELD SIZE; GAUSSIAN BEAM REPRESENTATION; POWER DEPOSITION;

HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; ELECTRIC FIELD; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL;

HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029329112     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.391168     Document Type: Article

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