Influences of blood flow parameters on temperature distribution during liver tumor microwave ablation

Abstract

Introduction 3. Materials and methods 3.1 Experimental setup 3.2 Modeling of MWA temperature distribution 3.3 Model validating based on MWA experimental results of porcine liver ex vivo 3.4 Evaluating the effects of vessel diameter and vessel-antenna spacing on temperature distribution in MWA 4. Results 4.1 MWA results of porcine liver ex vivo 4.2 Validation of finite element simulation model based on measured data 4.3 Effects of vessel diameter and antenna-vessel spacing on the MWA results 5. Discussion 6. Conclusions 7. Author contributions 8. Ethics approval and consent to participate 9. Acknowledgment 10. Funding 11. Conflict of interest 12. References