Methods of External Hyperthermic Heating
The development of equipment capable of producing and monitoring safe, effective and predictable hyperthermia treatments represents a major challenge. The main problem associated with any heating technique is the need to adjust and control the distributio
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M. Gautherie (Ed.)
Methods of External Hyperthermic Heating With Contributions by 1. W. Hand . K. Hynynen . P. N. Shrivastava . T. K. Saylor With 121 Figures and 34 Tables
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Dr. Michel Gautherie Laboratoire de Thermologie Biomedicale Universite Louis Pasteur Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale 11, rue Humann 67085 Strasbourg Cedex, France
ISBN-13:978-3-642-74635-2 DOl: 10.1007/978-3-642-74633-8
e-ISBN-13:97S-3-642-74633-S
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Methods of external hyperthermic heating / M. Gautherie (ed.); with contributions by J. W. Hand ... let aI.l. p. cm. - (Clinical thermology. Subseries thermotherapy) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-13:978-3-642-74635-2 (V. S.) 1. Thermotherapy. I. (]autherie, Michel. II. Series. RM865.M48 1990 615.8'32 - dc20 89-21981 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its version of June 24, 1985, and a copyright fee must always be paid. Violations fall under the prosecution act of the German Copyright Law.
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Preface
The development of equipment capable of producing and monitoring safe, effective and predictable hyperthermia treatments represents a major challenge. The main problem associated with any heating technique is the need to adjust and control the distribution of absorbed power in the tissue during treatment. Power distribution is considered adequate only when tumor tissue can be maintained at the required hyperthermic levels while, at the same time, healthy tissue is not overheated. This problem is particularly crucial when external heating devices are used to produce hyperthermia. External hyperthermia refers to those methods which supply heat to tumor tissue in an external, noninvasive manner, as opposed to internal hyperthermia by which heat is supplied to tumor tissue in situ. Until recently, most of the technical developments and clinical trials of thermotherapy
