Fig. 5
Tissue retention of gallium. Before ablation, liquid gallium was injected into the active leg muscle along the main vessels of the rats, as shown in the photographs and X-ray images (yellow arrow). After the legs of the anaesthetised rats had been placed within a magnetic coil, the temperature of the tissue injected with gallium and the studied domain were investigated using a fibre-optic thermometer and infrared imaging during the ablation. The tissue colours and the positions of gallium retention (determined through 3-day X-ray imaging, yellow arrow) before and after ablation were compared