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Laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT) is used to treat liver cancer by inserting a laser applicator into the tumor and applying radiation to heat and destroy it. A mathematical model for the simulation of LITT is compared to experimental results with ex-vivo pig livers.
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The authors acknowledge the financial support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for the project In-vitro Temperaturbestimmung und Computersimulation der Temperaturverteilung zur optimalen Planung und Steuerung der laserinduzierten Thermotherapie (LITT) (grant no.: VO 479/10-3 and SI 1289/1-3) and by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) of Germany in the framework of the project proMT: Prognostische modellbasierte online MR-Thermometrie bei minimalinvasiver Thermoablation zur Behandlung von Lebertumoren (grant no.: 05M16AMA).
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Leithäuser, C., Hübner, F., Bazrafshan, B., Siedow, N., Vogl, T. (2019). Experimental Validation of a Mathematical Model for Laser-Induced Thermotherapy. In: Faragó, I., Izsák, F., Simon, P. (eds) Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2018. Mathematics in Industry(), vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27550-1_29
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