TY - JOUR
T1 - Multimode degenerate mode cavity for microwave hyperthermia treatment
AU - Sangster, A. J.
AU - Sinclair, K. I.
PY - 2006/2
Y1 - 2006/2
N2 - The paper describes a new approach to the selective transmission of electromagnetic energy into a well-defined volume of a dielectric medium, to produce very localised heating within the medium. The concept is based on mode degeneracy in high-order-mode microwave cavities, and constructive field enhancement when several carefully selected degenerate modes are excited simultaneously. A particular embodiment of the cavity system might be a noninvasive hyperthermia procedure designed to raise the temperature of isolated, well-defined, tumours in a human patient or an animal, to eradicate cancer cells in a defined location. Theoretical results based on constructive interference processes for selected modes, which find their basis in well-established antenna-array pattern formulations, are presented.
AB - The paper describes a new approach to the selective transmission of electromagnetic energy into a well-defined volume of a dielectric medium, to produce very localised heating within the medium. The concept is based on mode degeneracy in high-order-mode microwave cavities, and constructive field enhancement when several carefully selected degenerate modes are excited simultaneously. A particular embodiment of the cavity system might be a noninvasive hyperthermia procedure designed to raise the temperature of isolated, well-defined, tumours in a human patient or an animal, to eradicate cancer cells in a defined location. Theoretical results based on constructive interference processes for selected modes, which find their basis in well-established antenna-array pattern formulations, are presented.
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U2 - 10.1049/ip-map:20050137
DO - 10.1049/ip-map:20050137
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-706X
VL - 153
SP - 75
EP - 82
JO - IEE Proceedings - Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
JF - IEE Proceedings - Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation
IS - 1
ER -
