Clinical thermometry, using the 27 MHz multi-electrode current-source interstitial hyperthermia system in brain tumours

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 227-231

  Kaatee, Robert S J P ^a   Nowak, Peter C J M ^a   van der Zee, Jacoba ^a   de Bree, Jacob ^b   Kanis, Bart P ^a   Crezee, Hans ^b   Levendag, Peter C ^a   Visser, Andries G ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Interstitial hyperthermia; Thermocouples; Thermometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY U; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOMETRY;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 0035336910     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00310-3     Document Type: Article

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