Conductive Interstitial Thermal Therapy (CITT) device evaluation in VX2 rabbit model

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 235-245

  Shafirstein, Gal ^a   Hennings, Leah ^b   Kaufmann, Yihong ^c   Novak, Petr ^b   Moros, Eduardo G ^b   Ferguson, Scott ^a   Siegel, Eric ^b   Klimberg, Suzanne V ^a,b   Waner, Milton ^a   Spring, Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductive interstitial thermal therapy (CITT); Finite element method (FEM); Mathematical modeling; PCNA (proliferating cell nuclear antigen; Thermal ablation; Triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC); VX2 carcinoma

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; CONDUCTIVE INTERSTITIAL THERMAL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34347397812     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153303460700600311     Document Type: Article

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