Principles of and advances in percutaneous ablation

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 351-369

  Ahmed, Muneeb ^a   Brace, Christopher L ^b   Lee Jr , Fred T ^b   Goldberg, S Nahum ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; CELL DAMAGE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOLING; CRYOABLATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER SURGERY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROWAVE THERAPY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOCOAGULATION; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE PERFUSION;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 79952318749     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10081634     Document Type: Note

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