Basic study of the coaxial antennas for minimally invasive microwave thermal therapy

Author

Saito, Kazuyuki ; Nakayama, Osamu ; Hamada, Lira ; Yoshimura, Hiroyuki ; Ito, Koichi

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Sci. & Technol., Chiba Univ., Japan

Volume

6

fYear

1998

fDate

29 Oct-1 Nov 1998

Firstpage

3261

Abstract

The number of studies of minimally invasive microwave antennas in medicine is increasing. They are hyperthermia for medical treatment for cancer, cardiac catheter ablation for ventricular arrhythmias treatment, microwave treatment of benign prostatic hypertrophy, and so on. In this paper we describe the characteristics of the minimally invasive microwave antennas by FDTD analysis for hyperthermia and cardiac catheter ablation antennas

Keywords

biomedical equipment; finite difference time-domain analysis; hyperthermia; microwave heating; slot antenna arrays; FDTD analysis; array antennas; benign prostatic hypertrophy; cancer treatment; cardiac catheter ablation antennas; coaxial antennas; hyperthermia; microwave antennas; minimally invasive microwave thermal therapy; slot antenna; ventricular arrhythmias treatment; Applicators; Catheters; Coaxial components; Electromagnetic heating; Finite difference methods; Hyperthermia; Medical treatment; Microwave antennas; Minimally invasive surgery; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998. Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5164-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1998.746191

Filename

746191