• DocumentCode
    1215757
  • Title

    Coupling Efficiency of Helical Coil Hyperthermia Applications

  • Author

    Hagmann, Mark J. ; Levin, Ronald L.

  • Author_Institution
    Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Branch, Division of Research Services, National Institutes of Health
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    1985
  • fDate
    7/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    539
  • Lastpage
    540
  • Abstract
    Experimental measurements have been made of the coupling efficiency of helical coil applicators operating under conditions simulating the regional hyperthermic heating of human extremities. We have found that for both saline and layered fat-muscle arm-size phantoms, the coupling efficiency ranged from 56 to 86 percent depending upon the specific coil-phantom combination employed. Helical coil applicators, therefore, seem to be inherently efficient devices for extremity heating.
  • Keywords
    Applicators; Biomedical measurements; Coils; Electromagnetic heating; Extremities; Humans; Hyperthermia; Imaging phantoms; Radio frequency; Water heating; Biomedical Engineering; Heat; Humans; Neoplasms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TBME.1985.325572
  • Filename
    4122106
    • Link To Document
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