Effect of variable heat transfer coefficient on tissue temperature next to a large vessel during radiofrequency tumor ablation

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  dos Santos, Icaro ^a   Haemmerich, Dieter ^b,c   da Silva Pinheiro, Cleber ^a   Ferreira da Rocha, Adson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MODELLING; CONSTANT WALL TEMPERATURE; CONVECTIVE COEFFICIENTS; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FEM; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER CO-EFFICIENT; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY; TIME-VARYING; TIME-VARYING MODELS; TISSUE TEMPERATURES; TUMOR ABLATION; VESSEL WALLS;

BLOOD VESSELS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COAGULATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTROLYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; HEATING EQUIPMENT; METALLIZING; THERMOANALYSIS; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS; TUMORS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ABLATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD VESSEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIVER; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMICS; ANIMAL; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 49249106562     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-7-21     Document Type: Article

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