Invasive Thermometry Techniques

Evaluation of CEM43°CT90 Thermal Dose in Superficial Hyperthermia

“…In line with most thermal dose studies in the literature [3,12,15,16,18,24], the analysis was limited to interstitially measured temperatures, since the value of measurements from probes placed between the skin and water bolus was considered questionable [34]. Two sets of dose parameters were calculated from the clinical data.…”

An Acoustic backscatter-based method for estimating attenuation towards monitoring lesion formation in high intensity focused ultrasound

“…Finally, they often heat up and they conduct this heat along their lengths, causing thermal damage to the surrounding area (Waterman, 1995).…”

“…The temperature of the sensor and its surrounding environment is determined by measuring the decay time of its emitted light (since the decay time varies with temperature). Fluoroptic probes are nonmetallic and therefore they do not cause field distortions and perturbations (Waterman, 1995). In addition, they do not heat up therefore they do not cause any thermal damage to the surrounding area.…”

“…The insertion of a few static sensors provides too few samples of temperature to provide info about the entire volume of interest. While, there are various techniques that can be employed to overcome this issue (Waterman, 1995) generally a large number of invasive point probes are required to map out the entire region of interest effectively. Therefore, noninvasive thermometry or imaging modalities are usually preferred for monitoring the progression of treatment.…”