Investigation of the influence of blood flow rate on large vessel cooling in hepatic radiofrequency ablation

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 337-346

  Welp, Christoph ^a,b   Siebers, Stefan ^a   Ermert, Helmut ^a   Werner, Jürgen ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood flow rate; Blood vessel; Finite element model; Liver tumors; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUMORS;

BLOOD FLOW RATE; LIVER TUMORS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

BODY FLUIDS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL; COOLING; EX VIVO STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LIVER; LIVER SURGERY; MODEL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE PERFUSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETER ABLATION; COLD; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CIRCULATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; THERMOREGULATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 34247392012     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2006.067     Document Type: Article

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