Heating technology for malignant tumors: a review

HP Kok, ENK Cressman, W Ceelen… - International Journal …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The therapeutic application of heat is very effective in cancer treatment. Both hyperthermia,
ie, heating to 39–45° C to induce sensitization to radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and …

Microwave ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma

G Poggi, N Tosoratti, B Montagna… - World journal of …, 2015 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although surgical resection is still the optimal treatment option for early-stage hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) in patients with well compensated cirrhosis, thermal ablation techniques …

Percutaneous tumor ablation tools: microwave, radiofrequency, or cryoablation—what should you use and why?

JL Hinshaw, MG Lubner, TJ Ziemlewicz, FT Lee Jr… - Radiographics, 2014 - pubs.rsna.org
Image-guided thermal ablation is an evolving and growing treatment option for patients with
malignant disease of multiple organ systems. Treatment indications have been expanding to …

Changes in the dielectric properties of ex vivo bovine liver during microwave thermal ablation at 2.45 GHz

V Lopresto, R Pinto, GA Lovisolo… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In microwave thermal ablation (MTA) therapy, the dielectric properties of the target tissue
play an important role in determining the radiation properties of the microwave ablation …

Antenna designs for microwave tissue ablation

H Fallahi, P Prakash - Critical Reviews™ in Biomedical …, 2018 - dl.begellhouse.com
Microwave (MW) ablation has emerged as a minimally invasive therapeutic modality and is
in clinical use for treatment of unresectable tumors and cardiac arrhythmias …

Treatment planning in microwave thermal ablation: clinical gaps and recent research advances

V Lopresto, R Pinto, L Farina… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Microwave thermal ablation (MTA) is a minimally invasive therapeutic technique aimed at
destroying pathologic tissues through a very high temperature increase induced by the …

A review of antenna designs for percutaneous microwave ablation

H Huang, L Zhang, MAJ Moser, W Zhang, B Zhang - Physica medica, 2021 - Elsevier
Microwave (MW) antenna is a key element in microwave ablation (MWA) treatments as the
means that energy is delivered in a focused manner to the tumor and its surrounding area …

Numerical models to evaluate the temperature increase induced by ex vivo microwave thermal ablation

M Cavagnaro, R Pinto, V Lopresto - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Microwave thermal ablation (MTA) therapies exploit the local absorption of an
electromagnetic field at microwave (MW) frequencies to destroy unhealthy tissue, by way of …

A novel software platform for volumetric assessment of ablation completeness

M Solbiati, R Muglia, SN Goldberg… - International Journal …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate the accuracy of a novel software platform for assessing
completeness of percutaneous thermal ablations. Materials & methods: Ninety …

A review of coaxial-based interstitial antennas for hepatic microwave ablation

JM Bertram, D Yang, MC Converse… - Critical Reviews™ in …, 2006 - dl.begellhouse.com
Although surgical resection remains the gold standard for treatment of liver cancer, there is a
growing need for alternative therapies. Microwave ablation (MWA) is an experimental …