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Current Solutions for the Heat-Sink Effect of Blood Vessels with Radiofrequency Ablation: A Review and Future Work

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Advanced Computational Methods in Life System Modeling and Simulation (ICSEE 2017, LSMS 2017)

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Abstract

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) as an alternative treatment to the conventional open surgery is the most popular minimally invasive thermal therapy, and it is widely used in clinic today. One of the most important limits for the RFA in clinic is the difficulty to deal with the heat-sink effect of blood vessels, as it causes the difficulty of control the RFA process and consequently the coagulation size of RFA is decreased considerably (empirically, the coagulation size is less than 3 cm with a single RFA electrode). This paper reviews the literature of the current solution for the heat-sink effect due to large blood vessels and suggests future work for finding more effective solutions.

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  1. CISR Lab, Tumor Ablation Group, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

    Zheng Fang, Bing Zhang & Wenjun Zhang

  2. Division of Biomedical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Bing Zhang & Wenjun Zhang

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Wenjun Zhang

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Fang, Z., Zhang, B., Zhang, W. (2017). Current Solutions for the Heat-Sink Effect of Blood Vessels with Radiofrequency Ablation: A Review and Future Work. In: Fei, M., Ma, S., Li, X., Sun, X., Jia, L., Su, Z. (eds) Advanced Computational Methods in Life System Modeling and Simulation. ICSEE LSMS 2017 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 761. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6370-1_12

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