Contribution of direct heating, thermal conduction and perfusion during radiofrequency and microwave ablation

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5013-5016

  Schramm, W ^a   Yang, D ^b   Haemmerich, D ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Radiofrequency ablation; RF ablation; Tumor ablation

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE HEATING; ONCOLOGY; SURGERY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

COMPUTER MODELS; MICROWAVE ABLATION; PERFUSION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR ABLATION;

HEAT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; HEAT; HEATING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NEOPLASM; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS; HEATING; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIO WAVES; SOFTWARE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 34047156572     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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