Experimental study of a hybrid microwave radiometryhyperthermia apparatus with the use of an anatomical head phantom

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-247

  Karathanasis, Konstantinos T ^a   Gouzouasis, Ioannis A ^a   Karanasiou, Irene S ^a   Uzunoglu, Nikolaos K ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anatomical head phantoms; focused monitoring; hyperthermia; microwave radiometry; noninvasive irradiation

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; ANATOMICAL HEAD MODELS; ANATOMICAL HEAD PHANTOMS; CONDUCTIVITY VARIATION; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FOCUSED MICROWAVES; FOCUSING PROPERTIES; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HUMAN VOLUNTEERS; HYBRID DIAGNOSTIC; HYPERTHERMIA; LABORATORY ANIMALS; LEFT HANDED; MATCHING LAYER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIOMETRIC TEMPERATURE; REAL FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL SENSITIVITY; THERAPEUTIC SYSTEMS;

ANIMALS; HEALTH CARE; HYPERTHERMIA THERAPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MICROWAVE IRRADIATION;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

HEAD; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MICROWAVES; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84858116550     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2187301     Document Type: Article

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