Journal article
Investigations of large vessel cooling during interstitial laser heating
Abstract
Interstitial laser heating of tissues is influenced by blood flow in the treatment region. Temperature gradients around large blood vessels may result in local underheating of tissues. A three-dimensional, time-dependent finite difference model of interstitial laser heating around large vessels is presented. A thermal conduction model was developed using a transport theory approximation for the energy distribution from an optical line source. …
Authors
Whelan WM; Wyman DR; Wilson BC
Journal
Medical Physics, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 105–115
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
1 1995
DOI
10.1118/1.597598
ISSN
0094-2405