title: Minimizing the self-heating artefacts due to the microwave irradiation of thermocouples.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation, Winnipeg, Canada.
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Dunscombe
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Constable
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McLellan
mesh_terms: D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008872:Microwaves; D013814:Thermal Conductivity; D013821:Thermometers