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The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare temperature distributions for different tissues being treated at the time of interstitial microwave hyperthermia. A coaxial-slot antenna implemented into the tissue is the source of…
A model which is an example of local interstitial microwave hyperthermia is presented. A microwave coaxial-slot antenna placed in the liver tissue is the heat source. Due to the axial symmetry of the model, for simplification a…
A simplified 2-D model which is an example of regional RF hyperthermia is presented. Human body is inside the wire with exciting current and the electromagnetic energy is concentrated within the tumor. The analyzed model is therefore a…
Ingestible sensor devices, which are increasingly used for internal health monitoring, rely on antennas to perform sensing functions and simultaneously to communicate with external devices. Despite the development of various ingestible…
Microwave hyperthermia aims at selectively heating cancer cells to a supra-physiological temperature. For non-superficial tumors, this can be achieved by means of an antenna array equipped with a proper cooling system (the water bolus) to…
Hyperthermia therapy (HT) is used to treat diseases through heating of high temperature usually in conjunction with some other medical therapeutics like chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In this study, we propose a promising thermostatic…
Hyperthermia has been in use for many years; as a potential alternative modality for cancer treatment. In this paper, an experimental investigation of microwave assisted thermal heating (MWATH) of tissue phantom using a domestic microwave…
Safety assessment of patients with one-dimensionally structured passive implants, like cranial meshes or stents, exposed to low or medium frequency magnetic fields, like those generated in magnetic resonance imaging or magnetic…
The finite element method is widely used in simulations of various fields. However, when considering domains whose extent differs strongly in different spatial directions a finite element simulation becomes computationally very expensive…
Magnetic hyperthermia is a new type of cancer treatment designed for overcoming resistance to chemotherapy during the treatment of solid, inaccessible human tumors. The main challenge of this technology is increasing the local tumoral…
We develop a multiphysics-based model to predict the response of localized tumors to combined-hyperthermia-radiotherapy (CHR) treatment. This procedure combines hyperthermia (tumor heating) with standard radiotherapy to improve efficacy of…
Since the spread of the wearable systems and the implementation of the forthcoming 5G in many devices, the question about the assessment of the exposure in wearable typical usage to millimeter waves is crucial and timely. For such…
We investigate multi-objective adaptive beamformer design strategies for non-invasive microwave hyperthermia. Our focus is to address the challenges of maintaining focused power deposition in desired locations while reducing unwanted…
We deal with the photoacoustic imaging modality using dielectric nanoparticles as contrast agents. Exciting the heterogeneous tissue, localized in a bounded domain $\Omega$, with an electromagnetic wave, at a given incident frequency,…
This study was undertaken to develop a system for heat transfer simulation for optimization and treatment planning of magnetic hyperthermia treatment (MHT) using magnetic particle imaging (MPI). First, we performed phantom experiments to…
During laser and ultrasound thermotherapy it is always desirable to have a precise necrosis of deeply seated tumor preserving the adjoining healthy tissue with minimum thermally induced nociceptive pain sensation to the patient. The aim of…
The tumour microenvironment plays a fundamental role in understanding the development and progression of cancer. This paper proposes a novel spatial point process model that accounts for inhomogeneity and interaction to flexibly model a…
Heat-based cancer treatment, so-called hyperthermia, can be used to destroy tumour cells directly or to make them more susceptible to chemotherapy or radiation therapy. To apply heat locally, iron oxide nanoparticles are injected into the…
This work was done with the aim of developing the fundamental breast cancer early differential diagnosis foundations based on modeling the space-time temperature distribution using the microwave radiothermometry method and obtained data…
Besides the lot of advantages offered by the 3D stacking of devices in an integrated circuit there is a chance of device damage due to rise in peak temperature value. Hence, in order to make use of all the potential benefits of the vertical…