• DocumentCode
    1322657
  • Title

    A water-cooled EM applicator radiating in a phantom equivalent tissue-experiments and numerical analysis

  • Author

    Gentili, G. Biffi ; Gori, F. ; Lachi, L. ; Leoncini, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Florence Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    1991
  • Firstpage
    924
  • Lastpage
    928
  • Abstract
    A prototype of a water-cooled electromagnetic applicator for intracavitary hyperthermia has been tested. The temperature distributions produced in a polyacrylamide dissipative medium have been shown using liquid crystals. It is shown that a complete electromagnetic and heat transfer model can predict the experimental temperatures.
  • Keywords
    biothermics; radiation therapy; heat transfer model; intracavitary hyperthermia; liquid crystals; numerical analysis; phantom equivalent tissue; polyacrylamide dissipative medium; temperature distributions; temperature prediction; water-cooled EM applicator; Applicators; Electromagnetic heating; Electromagnetic radiation; Hyperthermia; Imaging phantoms; Liquid crystals; Numerical analysis; Prototypes; Temperature distribution; Testing; Electromagnetics; Equipment Design; Hyperthermia, Induced; Models, Structural;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/10.83613
  • Filename
    83613