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Digital readout of feedback control temperature for use in local current field hyperthermia
Author(s) -
Kopecky Walter J.,
Parrino Peter A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.594566
Subject(s) - hyperthermia , temperature control , temperature measurement , field (mathematics) , core temperature , biomedical engineering , feedback control , medical physics , current (fluid) , computer science , materials science , physics , medicine , electrical engineering , engineering , mathematics , control engineering , quantum mechanics , anesthesia , pure mathematics , meteorology , thermodynamics
From clinical and biological experience it is oftentimes necessary to administer hyperthermia with a minimum number of temperature monitoring tumor probes. For this reason a digital readout device has been developed to monitor the feedback temperature of a hyperthermia generator. In this way the thermometry used to monitor tumor core temperature during biological or clinical hyperthermia can be minimized. The unit and its capabilities are described.