Hepatic bipolar radio-frequency ablation between separated multiprong electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1145-1152

  Haemmerich, Dieter ^a,b   Staelin, S Tyler ^c   Tungjitkusolmun, Supan ^a,d   Lee Jr , Fred T ^e   Mahvi, David M ^c   Webster, John G ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar ablation; Electrode; Finite element model; Liver ablation; Radio frequency; RF ablation

Indexed keywords

RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATIONS;

ABLATION; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TISSUE;

ONCOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL KILLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSURGERY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; SWINE;

EID: 0034833658     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.951517     Document Type: Article

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