Helical antenna arrays for interstitial microwave thermal therapy for prostate cancer: Tissue phantom testing and simulations for treatment

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1905-1918

  Sherar, Michael D ^a,b   Gladman, Aviv S ^a   Davidson, Sean R H ^a   Trachtenberg, John ^a,c   Gertner, Mark R ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROWAVES; TUMORS;

MICROWAVE THERAPY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BLADDER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTERSTITIUM; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; MUSCLE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULTRASOUND; URETHRA;

ACRYLIC RESINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0034925785     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/7/312     Document Type: Article

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