Passive acoustic thermo-tomography: development for cancer hyperthermia therapy

Author

Anosov, A.A. ; Bograchev, K.M. ; Wood, B.J. ; Passechnik, V.I. ; Svet, V.D. ; Gorbach, A.M.

Author_Institution

Sechenov´´s Moscow Med. Acad., Russia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

529

Lastpage

532

Abstract

The objectives of this paper are (a) to describe a passive acoustic thermo-tomographic imaging method for volumetric maps of temperature distribution in living tissue for use in noninvasive control of tissue temperature during radiofrequency heating of tumor tissue, (b) to illustrate this method by computer simulation and in laboratory tests on phantoms.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomedical transducers; biomedical ultrasonics; cancer; computerised tomography; hyperthermia; medical control systems; piezoelectric transducers; radiation therapy; radiofrequency heating; temperature distribution; thermometers; tumours; acoustic thermometer; cancer hyperthermia therapy; computer simulation; laboratory tests; living tissue; noninvasive control; passive acoustic thermo-tomographic imaging method; passive acoustic thermo-tomography; phantoms; piezotransducer; radiofrequency heating; temperature distribution; tissue temperature; tumor tissue; volumetric maps; Acoustic imaging; Cancer; Heating; Hyperthermia; Medical treatment; Neoplasms; Radio control; Radio frequency; Temperature control; Temperature distribution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Imaging, 2002. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7584-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBI.2002.1029311

Filename

1029311