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A new model is considered to describe the evolution of tissue temperature and water concentration during a thermal ablation process. The aim of this study is to expand the results obtained in Blauth et. al. 2020, where the tissue water…
Tissue biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing many diseases, involving the extraction of diseased tissue for histopathology analysis by expert pathologists. However, this procedure has two main limitations: 1) Manual sampling through…
We model the operative treatment of incompetent truncal veins using endovenous laser ablation (EVLA). Three differential equations, namely the diffusion, the heat and the bioheat equations, are considered in the endovenous-perivenous…
Over the past decades, thermal ablation procedures such as high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) have been developed vaporize cancerous tissues in a focal area. Thermal ablation has the potential to non-invasively eliminate tumors and…
In the present work we have studied the possibility of laser welding and ablation of biological tissue by the using of spherical metal nanoparticles (NPs) and infrared laser irradiation which spectrally located far from plasmon resonances.…
The maximum sustainable amplitude, so-called wave breaking limit, of a nonlinear plasma wave in arbitrary mass ratio warm plasmas is obtained in the non-relativistic regime. Using the method of Sagdeev potential a general wave breaking…
A molecular-dynamics thermal annealing model is proposed to investigate the mechanisms involved in picosecond pulsed laser ablation of crystalline silicon. In accordance with the thermal annealing model, a detailed description of the…
We present a density based topology optimization approach for the design of metallic microwave insert filters. A two-phase optimization procedure is proposed in which we, starting from a uniform design, first optimize to obtain a set of…
A study of damage and ablation of silicon induced by two individual femtosecond laser pulses of different wavelengths, 1030 and 515 nm, is performed to address the physical mechanisms of dual-wavelength ablation and reveal possibilities for…
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…
Electronic devices are progressively fabricated on flexible substrates allowing new fields of applications. A maskless and very flexible structuring process is offered by ablation using ultra-short pulse laser irradiation. Usually, certain…
Focused ultrasound stimulated microbubbles have been shown to be capable of inducing blood flow shutdown and necrosis in a range of tissue types in an approach termed antivascular ultrasound or mechanical ablation. In oncology, this…
Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) is an effective treatment for cardiac arrhythmias. Although generally safe, it is not completely exempt from the risk of complications. The great flexibility of computational models can be a major…
Significant (4%) absorption of microwave power focused on a thin fiber (the diameter is three orders of magnitude less than the wavelength) is demonstrated experimentally.
We describe the near-field microwave microscopy of microwave devices on a length scale much smaller than the wavelength used for imaging. Our microscope can be operated in two possible configurations, allowing a quantitative study of either…
Here, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time we report the in-depth experimental study of high ultrafast laser ablation efficiency for processing of copper and steel with single-pulses, MHz-, GHz- and burst in the burst (biburst)…
We review some of the latest approaches to analysing cardiac electrophysiology data using machine learning and predictive modelling. Cardiac arrhythmias, particularly atrial fibrillation, are a major global healthcare challenge. Treatment…
The microscopic mechanism of metal ablation induced by ultrashort laser pulse irradiation is investigated. A two-temperature model scheme combined with molecular dynamics (TTM-MD) is developed to incorporate electronic entropy effects into…
Histotripsy is a non-thermal focused ultrasound ablation method that destroys tissue through the generation and activity of acoustic cavitation. Intrinsic threshold histotripsy generates bubble clouds when the dominant negative pressure…
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…