Quasistatic zooming of FDTD E-field computations: The impact of down-scaling techniques

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1539-1551

  Van De Kamer, J B ^a   Kroeze, H ^a   De Leeuw, A A C ^a   Lagendijk, J J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATIENT MONITORING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

QUASISTATIC ZOOMING;

HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

ANATOMY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; GEOMETRY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0035025288     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/5/314     Document Type: Article

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