Title :
Consideration of handy excitation apparatus for the inductive hyperthermia
Author :
Jojo, Masayuki ; Murakami, Akiko ; Sato, Fumihiro ; Matsuki, Hidetoshi ; Sato, Tadakuni
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electr. & Commun. Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
fDate :
7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Hyperthermia is one of the therapeutic techniques for cancer that attempts to necrotize cancer cells by heating. In this study, we examine a device based on handy circular excitation coils and hybrid heaters for high-temperature hyperthermia using the soft heating method
Keywords :
cancer; hyperthermia; cancer cell necrotization; circular excitation coil; high-temperature inductive hyperthermia; hybrid heater; soft heating; therapeutic technique; thermosensitive magnetic material; Cancer; Coils; Cooling; Heating; Hyperthermia; Magnetic fields; Magnetic flux; Magnetic hysteresis; Magnetic materials; Temperature sensors;
Journal_Title :
Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on
