Sequential activation of ground pads reduces skin heating during radiofrequency tumor ablation: In vivo porcine results

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 746-753

  Schutt, David J ^a   Swindle, M Michael ^a   Helke, Kristi L ^a   Bastarrika, Gorka ^b   Schwarz, Florian ^a   Haemmerich, Dieter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

RF ablation; Skin burns; Tumor ablation

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; IN-VIVO; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RISE; MULTIPLE GROUNDS; PORCINE MODELS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RF GENERATORS; SEQUENTIAL ACTIVATION; SKIN BURN; SKIN TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE RISE; TUMOR ABLATION;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; TUMORS;

ABLATION;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BURNS; CATHETER ABLATION; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWINE;

EID: 77649143573     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2033385     Document Type: Article

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