Feasibility of salvage interstitial microwave thermal therapy for prostate carcinoma following failed brachytherapy: Studies in a tissue equivalent phantom

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1041-1052

  McCann, Claire ^a,b,c   Kumaradas, J Carl ^b,c   Davidson, Sean R H ^b   Dolan, Alfred M ^a   Sherar, Michael D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COAGULATION; HELICAL ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; TISSUE; TUMORS;

SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE (SAR);

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PHANTOM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; MUSCLES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SALVAGE THERAPY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038029439     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/8/306     Document Type: Article

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