Article ID: | iaor20041653 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 397 |
End Page Number: | 412 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
Journal: | OR Spektrum |
Authors: | Hutterer A., John J. |
Keywords: | location |
In this paper we investigate how to determine optimal locations of the microwave antennas being circularly ordered in a hyperthermia device. The heated area containing the tumor should have minimal volume. Based on a simple geometric model for the two and three dimensional case we develop algorithms for the computation of these volumes and present numerical results for the optimal locations.