Optimizing needle placement in treatment planning of radiofrequency ablation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6141, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chen, Chun Cheng R ^a   Miga, Michael I ^a   Galloway, Robert L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Optimization; Planning; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC EQUATIONS; NEEDLE PLACEMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPUTATION THEORY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PLANNING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33745413915     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.654983     Document Type: Conference Paper

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