The Application of Heat in Oncology Principles and Practice

Understand the use of heat to destroy tumors with this comprehensive guide

Heat is a potentially indispensable resource in the treatment of cancers and the destruction of cancerous tumors. There are also real challenges, however, involved in the total destruction of tumors without destroying healthy tissue surrounding the tumor in the process. A detailed understanding of the propagation of thermal energy, induced heating, and tissue responses to heat is required to safely and successfully apply heat-based technologies in clinical oncology.

The Application of Heat in Oncology supplies this understanding, with a thorough, comprehensive overview of the principle and practice involved. Offering both a detailed introduction to the physics and thermodynamics of induced heat and an analysis of its clinical applications, this is an essential resource for clinicians, technicians, and others in oncological practice.

The Application of Heat in Oncology readers will also find:

• Guidelines for applying heat both safely and effectively
• Detailed discussion of topics including temperature assessment, damage assessment, image guidance, and more
• Summary of current practice along with suggestions for future areas of technological improvement

The Application of Heat in Oncology is ideal for all clinicians working in the field of cancer treatment, including medical students, residents, researchers, engineers, radiologists, surgeons, and more.

Devashish Shrivastava is a mechanical engineer with In Vivo Temperatures, LLC, Clarksville, MD, USA with a background in the assessment of in vivo tissue heating and resulting thermal damage. He is also the editor of two other books, “Theory and Applications of Heat Transfer in Humans” and “Safety and Biological Aspects in MRI”.

Preface

1              PROPAGATION OF RADIOFREQUENCY AND MICROWAVES IN TISSUE

2              Propagation of Focused Ultrasound in Tissue

3              PROPAGATION OF LIGHT IN TISSUE

4              Mechanisms of Tissue Injury in Cryosurgery

5              Delivering Energy using Localized Hyperthermia Systems

6              Role of Nanoparticles Mediated Heating in Oncology

7              Current Status and Future Potential of Thermometry Based on Computed Tomography Imaging

8              Fluorescent-Decay Temperature Probes for Biomedical Applications - Theory, Techniques, and Practical Advice

9              Calibration and Use of Infrared Thermal Cameras in Biological Applications

10           Magnetic resonance thermometry in oncology - applications in moving organs

11           Measuring Tissue Temperature with Ultrasound

12           Temperature Monitoring During Thermal Treatment by Thermocouples and Thermistors: Current Status and Perspectives

13           A Generic Thermal Model to Predict Temperatures in Perfused Tissues

14           Measuring Thermal Damage with Gross and Microscopic Pathology

15           Assessing Thermal Damage with Magnetic Resonance Imaging

16           Ultrasound Imaging Techniques for the Evaluation of Thermal Damage

17           Mathematical Models of Thermal Damage and Cell Death

18           A Novel Method to Indicate Onset of Photothermal Damage

19           Thermodynamic Challenges of Using Magnetic Resonance Thermometry in Measuring In Vivo Temperatures and Estimating Thermal Damage in Thermal Ablation

20           Biological and Physical Aspects of Heat Therapy

21           Guiding Thermal Therapy with MR

22           Role of Radiofrequency Ablation and Laser Induced Thermal Therapy in the Management of Functional Neurosurgery and Brain Lesions

23           Radiofrequency and Microwave Thermal Ablation in Cancer Therapy

24           Role of High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Functional Neurosurgery and for the Management of Brain Lesions

25           Role of HIFU in Cancer Management

26           Percutaneous Cryoablation: Mechanism of Action, Clinical Applications, and Outcomes

27           CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF HYPERTHERMIA

28           Thermal Damage due to a Monopole Microwave Antenna

29           Thermal Damage with High Intensity Focused Ultrasound

30           Thermal Damage due to Laser

31           Thermal Damage due to Hot and Cold Surfaces

32           "MRI Induced RF Heating Considerations for Devices and Accessories that are Partially-in and Partially-Out of the Human Body"

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