Dunscombe P B, Constable R T, McLellan J
Department of Medical Physics, Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, Winnipeg, Canada.
Int J Hyperthermia. 1988 Jul-Aug;4(4):437-45. doi: 10.3109/02656738809016496.
The self-heating of metallic thermocouples in therapeutic microwave fields has long been recognized as a source of temperature artefacts in clinical hyperthermia dosimetry. We examine several techniques by which the probe and tissue heating artefacts resulting from self-heating may be quantitatively assessed, and discuss these in the context of their applicability to clinical hyperthermia.