Design optimization of a robust sleeve antenna for hepatic microwave ablation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1057-1069

  Prakash, Punit ^a   Deng, Geng ^b   Converse, Mark C ^c   Webster, John G ^a   Mahvi, David M ^c   Ferris, Michael C ^d  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MICROWAVES; OPTIMIZATION; ROBUST CONTROL;

ROBUST SLEEVE ANTENNAS; VARIABLE-NUMBER SAMPLE-PATH (VNSP);

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIVER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CATHETER ABLATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 39049112303     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/4/016     Document Type: Article

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