Sequential activation of ground pads reduces skin heating during radiofrequency ablation: Initial in vivo porcine results

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4287-4290

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

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

LIVER CANCERS; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RISE; MULTIPLE GROUNDS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SEQUENTIAL ACTIVATION; SKIN TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE RISE; TREATMENT MODALITY;

ABLATION;

EID: 77950971390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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