Advances and historical developments of MW hyperthermia and the relevance to thermal ablation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6440, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Turner, Paul F ^a   Youd, Thomas ^a   Turner, P Scott ^a  

^a BSD Medical Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Coherent; Interstitial; Microwave; Phased array

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

HYPODERMIC NEEDLE; PHASED ARRAY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548250404     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.725066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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