Improvement of patient return electrodes in electrosurgery by experimental investigations and numerical field calculations

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 519-528

  Golombeck, Marc André ^a   Dössel, Olaf ^a   Raiser, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrosurgery; Numerical field calculation; Patient return electrode; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSURGERY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SKIN; THERMAL EFFECTS;

PATIENT RETURN ELECTRODES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; THIGH;

ELECTRODES; ELECTROSURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0141995818     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345313     Document Type: Article

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