Abstract :
A team including members from the University of Limerick in Ireland and Italy´s Politecnico Milano report a quasi-distributed sensor incorporated in an RFTA device, using an emerging type of FBG; draw-tower gratings (DTGs).
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; cancer; distributed sensors; fibre optic sensors; radiation therapy; temperature sensors; FBG; RFTA; burning optical fibre gratings; burning quasidistributed temperature sensors; cancer treatment; draw-tower gratings; maturing draw-tower fabrication technology; radio-frequency thermal ablation;
