Current state of the art of regional hyperthermia treatment planning: a review

HP Kok, P Wust, PR Stauffer, F Bardati… - Radiation …, 2015 - Springer
Locoregional hyperthermia, ie increasing the tumor temperature to 40–45° C using an
external heating device, is a very effective radio and chemosensitizer, which significantly …

Modelling the interaction of electromagnetic fields (10 MHz–10 GHz) with the human body: methods and applications

JW Hand - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerical modelling of the interaction between electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and the
dielectrically inhomogeneous human body provides a unique way of assessing the resulting …

Deformable registration of brain tumor images via a statistical model of tumor-induced deformation

A Mohamed, EI Zacharaki, D Shen, C Davatzikos - Medical image analysis, 2006 - Elsevier
An approach to the deformable registration of three-dimensional brain tumor images to a
normal brain atlas is presented. The approach involves the integration of three components …

Hyperthermia treatment planning: clinical application and ongoing developments

HP Kok, J Crezee - IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hyperthermia is a proven clinical anti-cancer treatment, used in combination with
radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. During hyperthermia, tumour tissue is heated to 40-43° …

Computational modeling of the female pelvic support structures and organs to understand the mechanism of pelvic organ prolapse: a review

A Chanda, V Unnikrishnan… - Applied …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is an abnormality of the female pelvic anatomy due to events,
such as multiple child births, menopause, and morbid obesity, which may lead to weakening …

Finite element modeling of brain tumor mass-effect from 3D medical images

A Mohamed, C Davatzikos - … Conference, Palm Springs, CA, USA, October …, 2005 - Springer
Motivated by the need for methods to aid the deformable registration of brain tumor images,
we present a three-dimensional (3D) mechanical model for simulating large non-linear …

Patient-specific heart geometry modeling for solid biomechanics using deep learning

DH Pak, M Liu, T Kim, L Liang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated volumetric meshing of patient-specific heart geometry can help expedite various
biomechanics studies, such as post-intervention stress estimation. Prior meshing techniques …

An in vivo comparison of hip structure analysis (HSA) with measurements obtained by QCT

K Ramamurthi, O Ahmad, K Engelke, RH Taylor… - Osteoporosis …, 2012 - Springer
In a population of elderly women, bone cross-sectional area (CSA), cross-sectional moment
of inertia (CSMI), section modulus (Z), femoral neck axis length (FNAL), and width measured …

Deformable 2D-3D registration of the pelvis with a limited field of view, using shape statistics

O Sadowsky, G Chintalapani, RH Taylor - … 2, 2007, Proceedings, Part II 10, 2007 - Springer
Our paper summarizes experiments for measuring the accuracy of deformable 2D-3D
registration between sets of simulated x-ray images (DRR's) and a statistical shape model of …

A robust framework for soft tissue simulations with application to modeling brain tumor mass effect in 3D MR images

C Hogea, G Biros, F Abraham… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a framework for black-box and flexible simulation of soft tissue deformation for
medical imaging and surgical planning applications. Our main motivation in the present …