Experimental verification of numerical simulations of cryosurgery with application to computerized planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4553-4567

  Rossi, Michael R ^a   Rabin, Yoed ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIQUID NITROGEN;

BIOHEAT TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; COMPUTERIZED PLANNING; CRYOHEATER; CRYOPROBES; GELATIN SOLUTION; PHANTOM; URETHRAL WARMING;

CRYOSURGERY;

LIQUID NITROGEN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOSURGERY; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URETHRA; VIDEORECORDER; VIDEORECORDING;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYOSURGERY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THERMOGRAPHY; URETHRA;

EID: 34547110788     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/15/013     Document Type: Article

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