Numerical simulation of thermal disposition with induction heating used for oncological hyperthermic treatment

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-46

  Dughiero, Fabrizio ^a   Corazza, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coupled FEM analysis; Hyperthermia; Induction heating

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMMUNOLOGY; INDUCTION HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; ONCOLOGY; THERMAL EFFECTS; TUMORS;

FEM SIMULATIONS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; POWER DENSITY; THERMAL FIELDS;

HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

ALLOY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER THERAPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIVER TUMOR; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOREGULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 14044252883     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345121     Document Type: Article

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