Microwave Ablation Technology: What Every User Should Know

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 61-67

  Brace, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTENNA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENERATOR; HEATING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MICROWAVE THERAPY; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; REVIEW;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICROWAVES; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58549104361     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2007.08.011     Document Type: Review

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