K06: Therapeutic Applications of High-frequency EM (1)

Wednesday, August 20  08:00-09:20,  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.

8:00  K06.1   INFLUENCE OF TISSUE MASS AND EXPOSURE DURATION ON CORRELATION BETWEEN RADIO FREQUENCY ENERGY ABSORPTION AND INDUCED TEMPERATURE ELEVATION

S. Pisa¹, M. Cavagnaro¹, E. Piuzzi¹, J. C. Lin²

¹Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
²Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

8:20  K06.2   Development of Forceps Type Device for Biological Tissue Coagulation by Microwave Energy

Y. Endo¹, K. Suzuki¹, Y. Tezuka¹, K. Saito², M. Takahashi², K. Ito²

¹Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
²Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

8:40  K06.3   MICROSTRIP NEAR-FIELD FOCUSING FOR MICROWAVE NON-INVASIVE BREAST CANCER THERMOTHERAPY

L. Wang, D. Yin, M. Li, L. Li

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

9:00  K06.4   HOT-SPOTS INDUCED BY ELECTROMAGNETIC SURFACE WAVES DURING MICROWAVE THERMOTHERAPY

J. Vrba¹, B. Vrbova¹, J. Vrba jr.², D. Vrba²

¹Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Dept. of EM Field, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
²Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Dept. of Biomedical Technique, Czech Technical University in Prague, Kladno, Czech Republic