3D computational study of non-invasive patient-specific microwave hyperthermia treatment of breast cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3611-3629

  Zastrow, Earl ^a   Hagness, Susan C ^a   Van Veen, Barry D ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM FORMERS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST PHANTOM; BREAST TISSUES; CLINICAL SETTINGS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; MICROWAVE ENERGIES; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT; NON-INVASIVE; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PROPAGATION MODELS; ROBUST METHODS; SELECTIVE HEATING; SINGLE-FREQUENCY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TRANSMITTED SIGNAL; TUMOR SITE;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEAMFORMING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FOCUSING; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROWAVES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953868764     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/13/003     Document Type: Article

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