Computer simulation of RF liver ablation on an MRI scan data

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1487, Issue , 2012, Pages 120-126

  Kosturski, N ^a   Margenov, S ^a   Vutov, Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

FEM; numerical simulation; parallel algorithms; RF ablation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873624061     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4758949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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