A new approach to high-quality patient-specific hyperthermia treatment

Author

Capstick, Myles ; Neufeld, Esra ; Gosselin, Marie-Christine ; Iliev, Dimce ; Renggli, Julien ; Selic, Danilo ; Rivara, Bruno ; Deubler, Steffen ; Guidon, Manuel ; Kuster, Niels

Author_Institution

IT´IS Found. for Res. on Inf. Technol. in Soc., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Achieving good quality hyperthermia treatments places extremely high demands on both the applicator hardware and the treatment planning software and further requires an interface between the two modalities that guarantees precise steering and treatment delivery. We propose a paradigm that addresses all of these challenges with a flexible and light applicator, based on an innovative mask concept, placed on the patient and validated software optimized for patient-specific treatment, which together allow for high-fidelity and reproducible targeted tumor heating.

Keywords

hyperthermia; medical computing; patient treatment; tumours; applicator hardware; flexible applicator; high-fidelity targeted tumor heating; high-quality patient-specific hyperthermia treatment; innovative mask concept; light applicator; patient software optimization; precise steering; reproducible targeted tumor heating; treatment delivery; treatment planning software; validated software optimization; Applicators; Hardware; Hyperthermia; Planning; Slot antennas; Software; Tumors; applicator; hyperthermia; patient-sepcific planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Type

conf

Filename

7228493