• DocumentCode
    1869569
  • Title

    Non-invasive hyperthermic ablation of adipose tissue using microwave

  • Author

    Woo, Tae-Hee ; Yoo, Minkyun ; Kim, Wanghyun ; Kwon, Youngwoo ; Chung, Young-Seek ; Cho, Jeiwon ; Cheon, Changyul

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    11-17 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Recently, the number of obesity treatments has been gradually increased since more and more people has suffered from the obesity due to many reasons in modern society such as lack of exercise, overeating and so on. There have been developed many treatment methods using EM techniques at extreme frequency ranges (ELF or optical frequency). One of the disadvantages of these techniques is that it takes long time to be treated because of its inefficient use of EM energy in the treatment. Thus, we propose a way using a MW frequency region in order to reduce treatment time by an efficient use of EM energy.
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; hyperthermia; microwave antennas; patient treatment; EM energy; EM technique; MW frequency region; adipose tissue; antenna; extreme frequency range; microwave; noninvasive hyperthermic ablation; obesity treatment; optical frequency; treatment method; Antenna measurements; Cooling; Heating; Microwave antennas; Skin; Temperature measurement;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Toronto, ON
  • ISSN
    1522-3965
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4967-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2010.5560933
  • Filename
    5560933