An Optimal Sliding Choke Antenna for Hepatic Microwave Ablation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2470-2476

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; algorithms (GAs); finite element methods (FEMs); genetic; microwave antennas

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LIVER; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 74049123462     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2025264     Document Type: Article

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