Development and laboratory testing of a noninvasive intracranial focused hyperthermia system

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2160-2171

  Karanasiou, Irene S ^a,b   Karathanasis, Konstantinos T ^b   Garetsos, Anastasios ^b   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ellipsoidal conductive reflector; Focusing properties; Hyperthermia; Microwave radiometry; Noninvasive contactless methodology

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

ELLIPSOIDAL CONDUCTIVE REFLECTOR; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; HYPERTHERMIA; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NONINVASIVE CONTACTLESS METHODOLOGY;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 51649089272     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2002227     Document Type: Article

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