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Model ID: 497

Hepatic Tumor Ablation

Heating cancerous tumor tissue to a critical temperature can kill such cells. Doing so requires a local heat source, which physicians create by inserting a small electric probe. This example accomplishes the localized heating by inserting a four-armed electric probe through which an electric current runs.

Equations for the electrical field for this case appear in the Conductive Media DC application mode, and this example couples them into the bioheat equation, which models the temperature field in the tissue.

MEDICAL ENGINEERING: Heating cancerous tumor tissue to a critical temperature can kill them. A four-armed electric probe through which an electric current runs is modeled where the bioheat equation is coupled to the electric current.

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