A thermal monitoring sheet with low influence from adjacent waterbolus for tissue surface thermometry during clinical hyperthermia

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2397-2406

  Arunachalam, Kavitha ^a   Maccarini, Paolo F ^a   Stauffer, Paul R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Hyperthermia; Noninvasive thermometry; Surface thermal modeling; Temperature distribution measurement; Thermal monitoring sheet

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; PAPER SHEETING; POLYIMIDES; POLYMERS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACES; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOMETERS; TISSUE;

HEAT TRANSFER; HYPERTHERMIA; NONINVASIVE THERMOMETRY; SURFACE THERMAL MODELING; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; THERMAL MONITORING SHEET;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

POLYIMIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FIBER OPTICS; FILM; HEAT TRANSFER; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MECHANICAL PROBE; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMOMETRY;

DIATHERMY; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; PSORIASIS; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOMETERS; TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

EID: 53549128380     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.925693     Document Type: Article

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