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. 2006;9(Pt 1):486-93.
doi: 10.1007/11866565_60.

Towards optimization of probe placement for radio-frequency ablation

Inga Altrogge  1 , Tim Kröger, Tobias Preusser, Christof Büskens, Philippe L Pereira, Diethard Schmidt, Andreas Weihusen, Heinz-Otto Peitgen
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Towards optimization of probe placement for radio-frequency ablation

Inga Altrogge et al. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2006.

Abstract

We present a model for the optimal placement of mono- and bipolar probes in radio-frequency (RF) ablation. The model is based on a numerical computation of the probe's electric potential and of the steady state of the heat distribution during RF ablation. The optimization is performed by minimizing a temperature based objective functional under these constraining equations. The paper discusses the discretization and implementation of the approach. Finally, applications of the optimization to artificial data and a comparison to a real RF ablation are presented.

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