Ultrasonic heating with waveguide interstitial applicator array

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 703-707

  Jarosz, Boguslaw J ^a   Kaytar, Doru ^b  

^a IEEE

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effective thermal conductivity; FEA simulations; Interstitial heating; Thermotherapy instrumentation; Ultrasound applicators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; THERMOANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC DEVICES;

THERMOTHERAPY INSTRUMENTATION; ULTRASONIC INTERSTITIAL APPLICATORS;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032083599     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.744330     Document Type: Article

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