Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYPERTHERMIA
Volume 27, Issue 8, Pages 741-750Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.3109/02656736.2011.580822
Keywords
laser; modelling; thermal ablation; thermal dose; kinetic models
Funding
- T.L.L. Temple Foundation (Lufkin, TX)
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Laser sources are under increasing study for in vivo tumour ablation. Photo-thermal ablation in tissues varies tremendously in governing physical phenomena, depending on wavelength, owing to wide variation in the optical properties of tissues, specifically the dominant chromophore and degree and type of scattering. Once converted into local tissue heating, however, the governing thermodynamic principles remain the same. Observed irreversible thermal alterations range from substantial structural disruption due to steam evolution in high temperature short-term activations to low temperature rise, longer-term initiation of the complex protein cascades that result in apoptosis and/or necroptosis. The usual mathematical model in hyperthermia studies, the thermal isoeffect dose, arising from the relative reaction rate formulation, is not an effective description of the higher temperature effects because multiple processes occur in parallel. The Arrhenius formulation based on the theory of absolute reaction rates is much more useful and descriptive in laser heating since the multiple thermodynamically independent processes may be studied separately.
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