Microwave Ablation Using Four-Tine Antenna: Effects of Blood Flow Velocity, Vessel Location, and Total Displacement on Porous Hepatic Cancer Tissue

Figure 9

The cross sections (in the y-z plane) of temperature distribution in the porous model with a 10 mm-in-diameter blood vessel in immediate contact with point A and parallel to the 4T antenna (Figure 1(b)). The variations in the blood flow velocity range from (a) 0 cm/s, (b) 0.1 cm/s, (c) 1 cm/s, (d) 16.7 cm/s, (e) 100 cm/s, and (f) 200 cm/s.

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