High-powered gas-cooled microwave ablation: Shaft cooling creates an effective stick function without altering the ablation zone

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 198, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Knavel, Erica M ^a   Hinshaw, J Louis ^a   Lubner, Meghan G ^a   Andreano, Anita ^a   Warner, Thomas F ^a   Lee, Fred T ^a   Brace, Christopher L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cryogenic cooling; Microwave ablation; Thermal ablation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; COW; ELECTRODE; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; HIGH POWERED GAS COOLED MICROWAVE ABLATION; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; MEDICAL DEVICE; MICROWAVE THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; STUDENT T TEST; SWINE;

EID: 84857846203     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.6503     Document Type: Article

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