K07: Therapeutic Applications of High-frequency EM (2)

Wednesday, August 20  09:40-10:40,  Room #10

This session is devoted to recent progress in therapeutic applications of electromagnetic radiation including microwaves, lasers and infrared. Specific applications would include ablation, coagulation, hyperthermia, oncothermia, and other biomedical applications involving high power. Basic, applied and clinical research papers are welcome.

9:40  K07.1   ONCOTHERMIA: COMPLEX THERAPY BY EM AND FRACTAL PHYSIOLOGY

A. Szasz

Biotechnics Department, Szent Istvan Universty, Pest, Hungary

10:00  K07.2   NOVEL APPLICATOR FOR LOCAL RF HYPERTHERMIA TREATMENT USING IMPROVED EXCITATION CONTROL

M. H. Capstick¹, M. -C. Gosselin^1,2, E. Neufeld¹, N. Kuster^1,2

¹Foundation for Research on Information Technology in Society, Zurich, Switzerland
²ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

10:20  K07.3   APPLICATORS FOR LOCAL MICROWAVE HYPERTHERMIA BASED ON METAMATERIAL TECHNOLOGY

D. Vrba, J. Vrba

Dept. of biomedical technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, CTU in Prague, Kladno, Czech Republic