This article deals with the design and construction of the microwave applicator with transversal electro-magnetic (TEM) wave, which is filled by distilled water. We have constructed an applicator that works on the frequency f = 434MHz with aperture size of 100mm x 75mm. The applicator is made of the copper. Design of dimensions of the applicator and simulation of the specific absorption rate (S...

The liver plays a central role in the human metabolism and thus represents one of the organ systems most often affected, especially by tumor diseases. In the following the basics and data will be presented both for treatment aspects of secondary and primary liver tumors: Two thirds of the patients with colorectal carcinoma (CRC) have liver metastases by the time of death [57]. For CRC hepatic m...

This new edition of a well-known book has been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date in accordance with the rapid advances made in this department of medicine during the Great War. The book in its present form is divided into five sections, vis., thermotherapy, hydrotherapy, massotherapy (including medical gymnastics), the rest cure, electrotherapeutics, and dieto-therapy. A new chapter has...

In this article, the use of different types of thermotherapies to treat breast cancer is reviewed. While hyperthermia is most commonly used as an adjuvant in combination with radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy or cryotherapy to enhance the therapeutic effect of these therapies, thermoablation is usually carried out alone to eradicate small breast tumors. A recently developed thermothe...

In this study, magnetic iron oxide nanoparticle induced hyperthermia is applied for treatment of head and neck cancer using a mouse xenograft model of human head and neck cancer (Tu212 cell line). A hyperthermia system for heating iron oxide nanoparticles was developed by using alternating magnetic fields. Both theoretical simulation and experimental studies were performed to verify the thermot...

In order to develop melanoma-targeted in situ peptide vaccine immunotherapy, magnetite nanoparticles were conjugated with a melanogenesis substrate, N-propionyl cysteaminylphenol (NPrCAP). Magnetite nanoparticles introduced thermotherapy which caused non-apoptotic cell death and generation of heat shock protein (HSP) upon exposure to alternating magnetic field (AMF). NPrCAP was expected to deve...

OBJECTIVE To examine the role of microwave power and blood flow on temperature variations and tissue destruction in the prostate, using a theoretical model of transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT), and thus compare fixed-energy TUMT with no intraprostatic temperature monitoring (constant microwave power applied over a fixed period) with 'feedback' TUMT in which the microwave power is adj...

introduction: the medical applications of ultrasound on human brain are highly limited by the phase and amplitude aberrations induced by the heterogeneities of the skull. however, it has been shown that time reversing coupled with amplitude compensation can overcome these aberrations. in this work, a model for 2d simulation of the time reversal mirror technique is proposed to study the possibil...