Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Current Density and Temperature Distributions During Radio-Frequency Ablation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 879-890

  Panescu, Dorin ^a   Whayne, James G ^a   Fleischman, Sidney D ^a   Mirotznik, Mark S ^b   Swanson, David K ^a   Webster, John G ^c  

^a EP Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; CURRENT DENSITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

BLOOD FLOW; ELECTRODE GEOMETRY; RADIO FREQUENCY ABLATION; TISSUE ELECTRODE ANGLE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATHETER ABLATION; CATTLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; CATTLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODES; HUMAN; IN VITRO; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029361149     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.412649     Document Type: Article

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