Applicator for In-vivo Experiments on Mice with Melanoma Tumour

Author

Togni, Paolo ; Vrba, Jan ; Vannucci, Luca

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electromagn. Field, Czech Tech. Univ. in Prague, Prague

fYear

2008

fDate

23-24 April 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The use of electromagnetic fields in biomedicine for cancer treatment and diagnostics, nowadays begin to be quite widespread. This paper describes the design and the evaluation of a microwave applicator for treatment of small subcutaneous tumours implanted on animal model. The support of computer simulations was used to evaluate and optimise the fundamental parameters of the applicator and the SAR distribution in the biological tissue. The Results give the prospective to use this applicator for the study of the effects of hyperthermia treatment in relation with the characteristics of the treated tumour.

Keywords

biological effects of microwaves; cancer; hyperthermia; microwave heating; radiation therapy; tumours; animal model; applicator parameter optimisation; biomedic diagnostics; biomedical electromagnetic field applications; cancer treatment; hyperthermia treatment effects; in vivo experiments; melanoma tumour; mice; microwave applicator; small subcutaneous tumour treatment; Animals; Applicators; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Cancer; Computer simulation; Electromagnetic fields; Malignant tumors; Medical treatment; Mice; Hyperthermia; SAR distribution; confocal microscopy; in-vivo experiments; superficial heating;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Techniques, 2008. COMITE 2008. 14th Conference on

Conference_Location

Prague

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2137-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2138-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMITE.2008.4569908

Filename

4569908