Scientific Conferences of Ukraine, ICATT’97 - II International Conference on Antenna Theory and Techniques

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Fields and mechanisms for radio frequency local intracavitary hyperthermia and thermotherapy
T. A. Vashchuk, V. L. Sigal, V. G. Serpuchenko, A. V. Talaluev, K. A. Palzevich

Last modified: 2014-09-26

Abstract


The interest displayed during the last two or three decades all over the world to hyperthermia as a therapeutic method of treatment of the most serious diseases, including good-quality tissues and neoformations in our opinion has the expressive tendency to go down nowadays. First of all such tendency is possible to explain because the idea of the hyperthermia realization as a heating of biological tissues to the temperatures 42-43 °C has not been so far supported by sufficient clinical efficiency. Such situation has caused a variety of methods of warming up (local, interstitional, regional, etc.), use of physical fields (microwaves, radio frequencies, ultrasonic, optical radiations, convectional heat transference by a heated up liquids, etc.), medical technics and for time being not yet proved technologies of treatment. Finally, the scientific interest has contributed to the creation of much higher temperatures in the tissue locally up to 100 °C and higher, practically promoting a new direction in the treatment — thermotherapy.

The following study is an approach to the realization of the program of the most promising thermal method of influence upon the living tissue by the radio frequency fields.


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