A fast algorithm to find optimal controls of multiantenna applicators in regional hyperthermia

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 2503-2514

  Köhler, Torsten ^a   Maass, Peter ^a   Wust, Peter ^b   Seebass, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; HEATING; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TUMORS;

MULTIANTENNA APPLICATORS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CONTROL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYBRID; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; COLD; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034834065     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/9/318     Document Type: Article

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