Thermal characteristics of thermobrachytherapy surface applicators for treating chest wall recurrence

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1949-1969

  Arunachalam, K ^a   MacCarini, P F ^a   Craciunescu, O I ^a   Schlorff, J L ^b   Stauffer, P R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bionix Development Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PERFUSION; CHEST WALL; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONFORMAL MICROWAVE ARRAY; CRITICAL ORGANS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; FLUID FLOW DISTRIBUTION; HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; INLET TEMPERATURE; L-SHAPED; LOCALIZED POWER DEPOSITION; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT; NORMAL TISSUE; OPTIMAL CHOICE; PHANTOM MODELS; RADIATION DOSE; SAR DISTRIBUTION; SENSITIVE SKIN; SKIN SURFACES; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE; STEADY-STATE TEMPERATURE; SUPERFICIAL DISEASE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TARGET TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPTH PROFILES; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL DOSE; THERMAL DOSIMETRY; THERMAL ENHANCEMENT; THERMAL SIMULATIONS; THERMODYNAMICS MODEL; TISSUE SURFACE; WATER FLOW RATE;

APPLICATORS; BLOOD; DOSIMETRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON OPTICS; FLOW OF WATER; GRAPHIC METHODS; HYDRAULICS; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROWAVES; TARGETS; TUMORS;

TEMPERATURE;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE; THORAX TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TEMPERATURE; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77949732360     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/7/011     Document Type: Article

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