Main description:

Thermal Ablation Therapy: Theory and Simulation includes detailed theoretical and technical concepts of thermal ablation therapy in different body organs. Concepts of ablation technology based on different thermal ablation methods are introduced, along with changes in the tissues' mechanical properties due to thermal denaturation. The book emphasizes the mathematical and engineering concepts of RF and MW energy propagation through tissues and where high heating rates produced by MW systems can overcome the heat-sink effects from nearby vessels. The design and tuning of the MW antennas to deliver energy efficiently to specific organ systems such as the liver or lung is also covered.

Other sections cover the computational modeling of radiofrequency ablation and microwave ablation procedures for developing and implementing new efficient ablation in clinical systems, numerical simulations for different scenarios of different organs with different size using RF and MW ablation systems with different antennas'/probes design and configurations, and numerical techniques for temperature profile in tissues.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Ablation Techniques Overview
3. Mathematics and Finite Element Method of Thermal Ablation Therapy
4. Clinical Applications of Thermal Ablation
5. Ablation Probes
6. COMSOL Multiphysics Software for Ablation System Simulation
7. Simulation-driven Modelling of Radiofrequency Ablation System
8. Simulation-driven Modelling of Microwave Ablation System
9. Image-Guided based Thermal Ablation Therapy
10. Challenges and Future Research Directions