Towards a verified simulation model for radiofrequency ablations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6135 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 179-189

  Weihusen, Andreas ^a   Hinrichsen, Lisa ^b   Carus, Thomas ^c   Dammer, Rainer ^b   Rascher Friesenhausen, Richard ^a,b   Kröger, Tim ^a   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a   Preusser, Tobias ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences   (Germany)

^c Cuxhaven Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; RF ablation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TESTS; CLINICAL USE; COOLING EFFECTS; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; HEAT DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RF ABLATION; SIMULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABLATION; COAGULATION; DATA PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79956281123     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13711-2_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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