Microwaves in Medical Diagnostics and Treatment

Abstract

Paper deals with a description of research activities in the field of Microwave Medical Diagnostics and Treatment done at the Dept. of EM Field, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague. History of these activities goes to year 1981, when the first apparatus for microwave hyperthermia cancer treatment has been developed at CTU and one year later started to be used for oncological patient treatments at Institute of Radiation Oncology (Hospital Bulovka in Prague).In present time we have several areas of research activities dealing with applications of microwave theory, technique and technologies in medical diagnostics and therapy.Future trends in medical applications of microwave technique and technology can be seen in development of new diagnostic and imaging methods based on microwaves. A significant importance for the future can be identified for the following microwave methods: Tomography, Radiometry, Measurement of complex permittivity, Imaging in the Terahertz waves band and Diagnostic radars.

Health Information Science

“…The method of microwave thermometry (RTM) has become significant recently for oncological diagnostics [1,4,14,15]. This method allows to conduct surveys frequently and without any harm to health [13].…”

Temperature field simulation and phantom validation of a Two-armed Spiral Antenna for microwave thermotherapy

“…To date, several methods have been developed to successfully induce temperature rises either locally in selected regions of specific organs or over the whole body. Since microwave (MW) thermotherapy has the advantage of providing a comfortable and painless treatment environment for patients, it has been used in medicine for cancer treatment and the treatment of other diseases since early eighties [5,6]. Researchers have designed many types of radiators that are suitable for therapy on superficial tumors [7][8][9].…”