Fast simulation of solid tumors thermal ablation treatments with a 3D reaction diffusion model

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1173-1182

  Bertaccini, Daniele ^a   Calvetti, Daniela ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulative necrosis; Fast solver for time dependent PDEs; Modelling; Radio frequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATLAB; MEDICAL IMAGING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COAGULATIVE NECROSIS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; RADIO FREQUENCY ABLATION; THERMAL ABLATION;

TUMORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; HEATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SOLID TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RADIO WAVES;

EID: 34250827841     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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