Toward carbon-nanotube-based theranostic agents for microwave detection and treatment of breast cancer: Enhanced dielectric and heating response of tissue-mimicking materials

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1831-1834

  Mashal, Alireza ^a   Sitharaman, Balaji ^b   Li, Xu ^c   Avti, Pramod K ^b   Sahakian, Alan V ^c   Booske, John H ^b   Hagness, Susan C ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; carbon nanotubes; contrast agent; dielectric spectroscopy; microwave hyperthermia; microwave imaging; phantoms

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; HEATING; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TISSUE;

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER DETECTION; CONTRAST AGENT; DIELECTRIC CONTRASTS; EFFECTIVE CONDUCTIVITY; FUNCTIONALIZED; MALIGNANT TISSUES; MICROWAVE DETECTION; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT; MICROWAVE IMAGING; NORMAL TISSUE; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; SELECTIVE HEATING; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TISSUE-MIMICKING MATERIALS;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

CARBON NANOTUBE; SINGLE WALLED NANOTUBE; CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER THERAPY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MICROWAVE COOKING; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NONHUMAN; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROWAVE RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROWAVES; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77954639775     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2042597     Document Type: Article

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