Optimization of electromagnetic phased-arrays for hyperthermia via magnetic resonance temperature estimation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1229-1241

  Kowalski, Marc E ^a,b   Behnia, Babak ^c   Webb, Andrew G ^a,b   Jin, Jian Ming ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular phased arrays; Hyperthermia control; System identification

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTONS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOMETRY;

EID: 0036846223     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.804602     Document Type: Article

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