MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) of head and neck tumors: Progress with a new method

Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 361-366

  Feyh, J ^a   Gutmann, R ^a   Leunig, A ^a   Jager L ^a   Reiser, M ^a   Saxton, R E ^b   Castro, D J ^b   Kastenbauer, E ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; IRRADIATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; INFRARED NEODYMIUM YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER; INTERSTITIAL LASER PALLIATION; LASER INTERSTITIAL THERMAL THERAPY; LASER IRRADIATION; LASER THERAPY; PHOTOTHERMAL ABLATION; THERMAL NECROSIS; TUMORS;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

EID: 0030457298     PISSN: 10445471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/clm.1996.14.361     Document Type: Article

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