Matrix composition of microwave stripline applicators for local thermotherapy

Author

Vrbová, Barbora ; Vrba, Jan

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

19-21 April 2010

Firstpage

99

Lastpage

102

Abstract

This article describes the design and evaluation of microwave stripline applicator for treatment of malignant tumors located under the surface of biological tissue. This tissue is in our simulations mimicked by homogeneous agar phantom with similar characteristics as the biological tissue. Further this paper presents results from measurement of impedance matching and simulations of SAR distribution on planar agar phantom by using two same applicators and SAR distribution in cylindrical agar phantom by using composition of four applicators of the same type.

Keywords

cancer; hyperthermia; impedance matching; microwave heating; phantoms; strip lines; tumours; SAR distribution; biological tissue; homogeneous agar phantom; impedance matching; local thermotherapy; malignant tumors; microwave stripline applicator; Applicators; Biological system modeling; Biological tissues; Electromagnetic heating; Imaging phantoms; Malignant tumors; Medical treatment; Microwave technology; Stripline; Transmission line matrix methods; Microwave thermotherapy; SAR; cancer treatment; hyperthermia applicators; impedance matching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Techniques (COMITE), 2010 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brno

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6341-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMITE.2010.5481863

Filename

5481863