Microwave vest for hyperthermia treatment of large area superficial disease

This effort describes the clinical realization of a large area microwave vest applicator for hyperthermia treatment of the entire chestwall. The performance of this applicator is analyzed in terms of theoretical and experimental SAR patterns in realistic heterogeneous tissue loads, temperature distributions in clinical patient treatments, and success at achieving the design goals of this microwave vest applicator development project.

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