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Authors:
Giovanna Palumbo
Agostino Iadicicco
Stefania Campopiano
Paola Saccomandi
Daniele Tosi
Paolo Verze
Nicola Carlomagno
Vincenzo Tammaro
Juliet Ippolito
Elena De Vita
Carlo Massaroni
Emiliano Schena
Keywords: Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs); Radio Frequency Thermal Ablation (RFTA); temperature monitoring
Abstract:
In this work, we report on the use of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) sensor for real-time in-situ temperature monitoring during Radio Frequency Thermal Ablation (RFTA) tumor treatment. In order to create a thermal multi-point measurement of the area to be treated, a proper sensing configuration was developed by instrumenting the RF commercial probe with more than 30 FBG sensors. The experiments were conducted on ex-vivo animal liver and kidney tissues and results confirm that the proposed setup is able to conduct a multi-point measurement and to distinguish between different and consecutive RF discharges with a temperature resolution of 0.1 °C and a minimum spatial resolution of 1 mm.
Pages: 75 to 76
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018
Publication date: March 25, 2018
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4359
ISBN: 978-1-61208-618-7
Location: Rome, Italy
Dates: from March 25, 2018 to March 29, 2018