Conductive interstitial thermal therapy device for surgical margin ablation: In vivo verification of a theoretical model

International Journal of Hyperthermia

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 477-492

  Shafirstein, Gal ^a   Novák, Petr ^a   Moros, Eduardo G ^a   Siegel, Eric ^a   Hennings, Leah ^a   Kaufmann, Yihong ^b   Ferguson, Scott ^a   Myhill, Jeffrey ^a   Swaney, Mark ^c   Spring, Paul ^a,b  

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

^b CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductive interstitial thermal therapy (CITT); Finite element method (FEM); Surgical margins; Thermal ablation; Triphenyltetrazolium chloride (TTC)

Indexed keywords

TRIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM; TUMOR MARKER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONDUCTIVE INTERSTITIAL THERMAL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IN VIVO STUDY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; STAINING; SWINE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUTERY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; SUS SCROFA; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 35548975126     PISSN: 02656736     EISSN: 14645157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02656730701591476     Document Type: Article

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