Design optimization of coaxial antennas for hepatic microwave ablation using genetic algorithms

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, APSURSI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Prakash, Punit ^a   Converse, Mark C ^b   Webster, John G ^a   Mahvi, David M ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DIESEL ENGINES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; OPTIMIZATION;

ANTENNA DESIGNS; COAXIAL ANTENNAS; COMPUTER MODELS; DESIGN OPTIMIZATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; MICROWAVE ABLATIONS; MULTI-OBJECTIVE GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 55649095771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.2008.4619693     Document Type: Conference Paper

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