Increased ablation zones using a cryo-based internally cooled bipolar RF applicator in ex vivo bovine liver

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 763-768

  Rempp, Hansjörg ^a   Voigtländer, Matthias ^b   Clasen, Stephan ^a   Kempf, Simone ^a   Neugebauer, Alexander ^b   Schraml, Christina ^a   Schmidt, Diethard ^a   Claussen, Claus D ^a   Enderle, Markus D ^b   Goldberg, S Nahum ^c   Pereira, Philippe L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBH   (Germany)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar RF ablation; Interventional oncology; Radiofrequency ablation; Thermoablative therapies

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; COW; CRYOABLATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

EID: 73349098230     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e3181b66d11     Document Type: Article

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