Radio-frequency ablation in a realistic reconstructed hepatic tissue

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 354-364

  Hariharan, Prasanna ^b   Chang, Isaac ^a   Myers, Matthew R ^a   Banerjee, Rupak K ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION POINT; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATION; THERMAL RESPONSE; VASCULAR GEOMETRY;

ABLATION; BLOOD VESSELS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HEAT TRANSFER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER; HEPATIC ARTERY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATHETER ABLATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34249725844     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2720912     Document Type: Article

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