Probabilistic finite element analysis of radiofrequency liver ablation using the unscented transform

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 627-640

  Dos Santos, Icaro ^a,b   Haemmerich, Dieter ^b,c   Schutt, David ^b   Da Rocha, Adson Ferreira ^a   Menezes, Leonardo Rax ^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

BLOOD PERFUSIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CUMULATIVE DENSITY FUNCTIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITIES; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; LIVER TISSUES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RADIO-FREQUENCY ABLATIONS; STATISTICAL VARIABILITIES; UNSCENTED TRANSFORMS;

ABLATION; COAGULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIVER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THERMOANALYSIS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAT; HEMOPERFUSION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 63649116596     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/3/010     Document Type: Article

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