Figure 2

Model geometry with tumour. The model geometry consists of two tissue elements, fat and tumour. In some cases the tumour is not included in the model. The geometry is rotationally symmetric, where the diagonal symmetry axis is centred in the horizontal plane. All model geometries consist of a spherical isotropic volume of fat (d = 200 mm). Additionally, in most cases, a smaller cancerous tissue mass is added into the model along the symmetry axis. The tumour dimensions in this figure are 52 mm × 4.7 mm. The electrode is incorporated in the model by removing tissue with the same geometry as the electrode and setting appropriate boundary conditions at the electrode-tissue interface. The tissue-electrode boundary is positioned around the symmetry axis, where the active part is placed in the middle of the spherical volume. In the enlarged section, we see that the tumour is placed around the electrode along the symmetry axis, with 63% of its length below the electrode.