Radio frequency heating of implanted tissue engineered scaffolds: Simulation and experimental studies

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Izadifar, Mohammad ^a   Chen, Xiongbiao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Radio frequency heating; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CHITOSAN; HEATING; RADIO WAVES; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

3D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; ALGINATE SCAFFOLDS; APPLIED VOLTAGES; CHITOSAN SCAFFOLD; RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING; RADIOFREQUENCIES; TISSUE-ENGINEERED SCAFFOLDS; TISSUES ENGINEERINGS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84872824849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21518629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5098/hmt.v3.4.3004     Document Type: Article

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