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International Journal of Hyperthermia Volume 4, 1988 - Issue 4
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Original Article

Minimizing the self-heating artefacts due to the microwave irradiation of thermocouples

P. B. Dunscombe Department of Physics, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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R. T. Constable Department of Physics, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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J. McLellan Department of Medical Physics, Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, 100 Olivia Street, Winnipeg, Canada, R3E OV9
Pages 437-445 | Received 04 Jun 1987, Accepted 27 Oct 1987, Published online: 09 Jul 2009
 
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Abstract

The self-heating of metallic thermocouples in therapeutic microwave fields has long been recognized as a source of temperature artefacts in clinical hyperthermia dosimetry. We examine several techniques by which the probe and tissue heating artefacts resulting from self-heating may be quantitatively assessed, and discuss these in the context of their applicability to clinical hyperthermia.

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