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Article: Microwave heating in medicine. (microwave technology to solve medical problems)
- Article from:
- Microwave Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 1991
- Author:
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Microwave Heating in Medicine(*)
Introduction
Over the past two decades, microwave technology has slowly made inroads into the medical marketplace. In the 1960s, diathermy was used for therapeutic heating of tissue beneath the skin surface. In the 1980s, microwave heating devices were introduced commercially for use in the treatment of cancer (hyperthermia). Progress with respect to general acceptance has been slow partially because until very recently key microwave components necessary to make commercial devices for heat application or for temperature measurement have been expensive and generally unavailable. Times have changed. Microwave technology ...