Time-multiplexed beamforming for noninvasive microwave hyperthermia treatment

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1574-1584

  Zastrow, Earl ^a,b   Hagness, Susan C ^a   Van Veen, Barry D ^a   Medow, Joshua E ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES IN SOCIETY IT IS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamforming; biomedical applications of electromagnetic (EM) radiation; brain cancer treatment; finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; microwave hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; BEAMFORMER DESIGN; BEAMFORMERS; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN HYPERTHERMIA; CANCER TREATMENT; CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUGS; CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF BIOLOGICAL TISSUE; HEAD GEOMETRY; HEALTHY TISSUES; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LOCALIZED HEATING; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MICROWAVE BEAMFORMING; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA; MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PROPAGATION MODELS; TARGET LOCATION; THERMAL SIMULATIONS; TIME MULTIPLEXED; TIME MULTIPLEXING; TREATMENT TEMPERATURE;

BEAMFORMING; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DISEASES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; HEATING; MICROWAVES; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; FRONTAL LOBE; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PARIETAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79956352164     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2103943     Document Type: Article

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