FOCO: A Novel Versatile Tool in Hyperthermia Treatment Planning

The possibility of ultimately control the power deposition represents the way towards a wide spread adoption of hyperthermia in the clinic. The end goal is represented by the possibility of uniformly shaping the temperature over the target area while keeping it arbitrarily bounded elsewhere. In this respect, an innovative SAR-based optimization strategy, the so called Focusing via Constrained power Optimization (FOCO), has been proposed and recently tested in the clinic. Thanks to its huge versatility (as well as several advantages), different derivations of FOCO were developed addressing different clinical needs. In this communication we aim at review some of these derivations under a common framework.

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