Dual-slot antennas for microwave tissue heating: Parametric design analysis and experimental validation

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4232-4240

  Brace, Christopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

interstitial antenna; microwave ablation; thermal ablation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ASPECT RATIO; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; HEATING; MAMMALS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; MICROWAVE ABLATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; PARAMETRIC -ANALYSIS; RELATIVE PERMITTIVITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THERMAL ABLATION;

SLOT ANTENNAS;

BOVINAE;

EID: 79960219333     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3601019     Document Type: Article

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