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Cancer is the second cause of death in the developed world with 2, 645, 000 estimated deaths/year. Due to the wide variety of cancer types, stages and locations, there is no unified approach to treatment. Cancer therapy still relies on a wide variety of techniques. Traditional treatment options are surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. New treatment approaches based on local tumor ablation have lately received much attention from the medical community. |
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 Of particular interest in this growing field of minimally invasive ablation therapies are the thermal ablation methods.
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 Thermal ablation procedures usually proceed in four distinct steps: planning, targeting, heating and validation.
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 Focused ultrasound is a very effective way to raise the temperature in a tumor in a completely non invasive way.
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 Image Guidance is an essential part of thermal ablation procedure.
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 Phased arrays technologies are used in widely different fields like radar, radiotelescope, sonar, MR receive coils...
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 MR unique ability to provides temperature images of internal organs makes it the prefered imaging modality to guide thermal ablation procedures.
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