The Study of the Controllable Parameters on the Hyperthermia Efficiency (A Numerical Study)

The aim of this article is to propose a useful scheme, to achieve ideal hyperthermia using spatial heating sources. To do this, the effect of the variation of some of the controllable parameters such as the heating source power, the heating duration, the heating source type, and the cooling system parameters, upon the temperature distribution was investigated. The tissue under treatment is a superficial cancerous tissue with no significant blood vessel. So the Pennes bioheat transfer equation was used to simulate the treatment phenomena. Fully implicit control volume method was used to solve the transient one dimensional Pennes equation. The results show that by selecting appropriate values for controllable parameters, hyperthermia treatment could be done ideally.