Feasibility of Using a Novel 2.45 GHz Double Short Distance Slot Coaxial Antenna for Minimally Invasive Cancer Breast Microwave Ablation Therapy: Computational Model, Phantom, and In Vivo Swine Experimentation

Table 4

Maximum temperature in the thermal sensor next to the antenna slots for the computational model, phantom experimentation, and in vivo swine experimentation.

	FEM model	Phantom experimentation	In vivo experimentation	FEM model versus phantom	FEM model versus in vivo	Phantom versus in vivo
Power/time (W/s)	Maximum temperature next to the slots (°C)			ΔT (°C)
10/120	92.11	70.91	89.37	21.20	2.74	18.46
20/40	102.60	69.15	91.31	33.45	11.29	22.16
30/30	109.20	76.78	90.42	32.42	18.78	13.64
50/15	136.00	75.22	103.96	60.78	32.04	28.74
Power/time (W/s)	Maximum temperature at 1 cm (°C)			ΔT (°C)
10/120	69.35	63.60	72.88	5.75	3.53	9.28
20/40	70.40	59.84	64.61	10.56	5.79	4.77
30/30	84.85	67.11	69.45	17.74	15.40	2.34
50/15	80.60	63.71	85.27	16.89	4.67	21.56