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From: Influence of electrical and thermal properties on RF ablation of breast cancer: is the tumour preferentially heated?

Figure 9

Electrical absorption from case 6. The illustration shows half the plane through the symmetry axis. The coordinates are cylindrical where the horizontal axis is denoted r and the vertical axis z. The symmetry axis located at r = 0. The redundant three dimensional solution is obtained by rotating the half plane about the symmetry axis. The electrode is located along the symmetry axis where Z > 0.09. The length scale of the axes is in meters. The tumour shifts the absorption of electrical energy to the tumour area and to some extent the tumour fat interface. The absorption in the tumour is always higher compared to the fat at the same distance from the electrode.

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