High-Powered Gas-Cooled Microwave Ablation: Shaft Cooling Creates an Effective Stick Function Without Altering the Ablation Zone
- 1 March 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Roentgen Ray Society in American Journal of Roentgenology
- Vol. 198 (3) , W260-W265
Abstract
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of our study was to validate the ability of a new gas-cooled microwave device to secure antennas into tissue before ablation via shaft cooling and to verify that such cooling...Keywords
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