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Clinical Applications of Microwave and Ultrasound in Hyperthermia: Preliminary Results (극초단파와 초음파온열치료에 의한 각종암의 임상치료)

  • Koh Kyoung Hwan;Park Young Hwan;Cho Chul Koo;Yoo Seong Yul
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 1988
  • Twenty seven lesions of 25 patients with locally advanced malignant tumors were treated with combined hyperthermia introduced by microwave and ultrasound and radiotherapy. Most of all patients were failed with previous conventional therapeutic trial. Hyperthermia had been done immediately after radiotherapy, twice a week, $43^{\circ}C$ for one hour and radiotherapy had been done 5 fractions per week with fraction size of 2Gy upto 30 to 60Gy. Conclusions are as follows. 1. Total response rate (PR+PR) to thermoradiotherapy with microwave and ultrasound was $81\%$. 2. Tumor depth, minimum temperature of tumor center, number of heat fraction and radiation dose were statistically significant factors affecting response. 3. Hyperthermia with microwave and ultrasound can be used efficiently to control locally advanced malignant disease whether previously received near tolerance dose of radiotherapy or not.

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Microwave Radiation Effects on the Process of Escherichia coli Cultivation

  • Kuznetsov, Denis;Volkhin, Igor;Orlova, Ekaterina;Neschislyaev, Valery;Balandina, Alevtina;Shirokikh, Anna
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.47 no.3
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    • pp.372-380
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    • 2019
  • Modern biotechnological industries have been attempting to improve the efficiency of bacterial strain cultivation. Millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation can have a varied influence on E. coli cultivation processes. The results of the study revealed that when a microwave radiation of low intensity is applied to positively adjust the conditions for the accumulation of bacterial culture biomass, a significant role is played not only by radiation parameters, but also by concomitant biological factors, which influence the reproducibility of the cultivation process and help obtain a useful biotechnological effect. The authors suggest a model that can be used to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the changes in the buildup of E. coli biomass under the influence of electromagnetic radiation.

Microwave-Assisted Heating of Electrospun SiC Fiber Mats

  • Khishigbayar, Khos-Erdene;Joo, Young Jun;Cho, Kwang Youn
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.499-505
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    • 2017
  • Flexible silicon carbide fibrous mats were fabricated by a combination of electrospinning and a polymer-derived ceramics route. Polycarbosilane was used as a solute with various solvent mixtures, such as toluene and dimethylformamide. The electrospun PCS fibrous mats were cured under a halogen vapor atmosphere and heat treated at $1300^{\circ}C$. The structure, fiber morphology, thermal behavior, and crystallization of the fabricated SiC fibrous mats were analyzed via scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and thermal imaging. The prepared SiC fibrous mats were composed of randomly distributed fibers approximately $3{\mu}m$ in diameter. The heat radiation of the SiC fiber mats reached $1600^{\circ}C$ under microwave radiation at a frequency of 2.45 GHz.

Fabrication of Microwave Applicator for Hyperthermia and Thermal Distribution in Tissues (종양의 온열치료를 위한 마이크로잔 조사장치의 제작과 응용)

  • Chu S. S.;Lee J. T.;Kim G. E.
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 1984
  • The renewed interest in the use of hyperthermia in cancer therapy is bases on radiobiological and clinical evidence indicated that there may be a significant therapeutic advantage with the use of heat alone or combined with radiation or chemotherapy, There are many methods for generating heat for localized tumor as like radiofrequency, microwave, electromagnetic induction and ultrasound. But it is very difficult to be even thermal dose distribution and stable output of power and then the detection of temperature in tumor is difficult to be precise with thermocouples and semiconductor sensors. We designed the microwave heating generator, dipole antenna applicators and autometic temperature controlled thermocouples for localized hyperthermia on skin and in cavities. 1. The microwave generator with 120 W, 2,450MHz magnetron could be heating up to $40^{\circ}C\~50^{\circ}C\;for\;1\~2$ hours in living tissues. 2. The thermal dose distribution in tissue with microwave was described $42^{\circ}C\~44^{\circ}C$ with in 3 cm depth and $2\~6cm$ diameter area. 3. Skin surface heating applicator with spiral 3 times wave length antenna radiated high Power of microwave. 4, Intracavitary heating applicator with dipole antenna with autometic control temperature sensor kept up continuously constant temperature in tissue. 5. For constant thermal distribution, applied two steps power with 10W microwave after $17\~20W$ during first 10 minutes. 6. The cooling rate by blood flew in living tissue was rised as $10\%$ then meats.

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Dual-Band Fractal Antenna with Bandwidth Improvement for Wireless Applications

  • Nsir, Chiraz Ben;Boussetta, Chokri;Ribero, Jean-Marc;Gharsallah, Ali
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 2021
  • In this paper, a dual-band Koch Snowflake antenna is proposed for wireless communication systems. Fractal geometry, CPW-feed and stepped ground planes are used to improve the impedance bandwidth. By properly introducing a hexagonal split-ring slot to radiating element, a lower frequency band is generated. The proposed structure is fabricated and tested. Experiment results exhibit dual-band of 0.73-0.98 GHZ and 1.6-3.1 GHz which makes this antenna suitable candidate for GSM900, GSM1800, UTMS2100, Wi-Fi 2400 and LTE2600 bands. In addition, a good radiation pattern, a satisfactory peak gain and a radiation efficiency, which reaches 95%, are achieved.

PRELIMINARY STUDY OF WATER CONTENTS AND SIGNAL BEHAVIOR IN FINGERNAIL/EPR DOSIMETRY

  • Choi, Hoon;Choi, Sul A;Lee, Byungil
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.185-188
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    • 2013
  • Heating method using electric heater was used to reduce water content in fingernail clippings. Authors found that low water content is helpful to measure EPR signal of fingernail sample with enhanced variability. Generally, natural dehydration happens in normal room condition at least one month and needs much time for using in experiment. So, artificial heating method is applied in this study for time savings. Fingernail samples were tested to find effect of water content to the EPR signal on microwave power levels for dosimetry. Low water content in fingernail reduced variability of EPR signal and makes it possible to measure accurate EPR signal. It also made it possible to measure constant movement of EPR signals on several microwave power levels. Although this method was difficult to apply directly in fingernail/EPR dosimetry, we, authors, believe that this heating method would be useful to differentiate MIS2 and RIS which are generally located at the same g-factor and almost impossible to be identified with each other.

Synthesis of NaY Zeolites by Microwave and Conventional Heating (마이크로파 및 기존 가열 방법에 의한 제올라이트 NaY의 합성)

  • Choi, Ko-Yeol;Conner, W. Curtis
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.344-349
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    • 2007
  • NaY zeolites synthesized by microwave heating were compared with those obtained by conventional heating. When the same temperature increasing rates were adopted in both heating methods, the microwave heating shortened the induction period and enhanced the rate of crystallization of NaY zeolites compared with the conventional heating. Irrespective of microwave radiation, the fast temperature increasing rate also shortened the induction time and enhanced the crystallization of NaY zeolites. The crystal sizes of NaY zeolites were large under the fast temperature raise of the reaction mixture and became larger by microwave radiation. At the same time, the fast temperature increasing rate has reduced the energy consumption due to the fast completion of reaction during the synthesis of NaY zeolite. The energy consumption in the conventional ethylene glycol bath was lower than that in the microwave oven with the same temperature increasing rate in this study, which means that the energy efficiency is not always high in microwave heating. If the temperature increasing rate is carefully controlled, however, NaY zeolite can be produced with high energy efficiency in the microwave oven.

A Study of a period boundary by microwave generator (주기경계를 갖는 마이크로파 발생장치 연구)

  • Kim, Won-Sop;Kim, Jeong-Man
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.481-481
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    • 2007
  • The characteristics of slow wave structure employed for backward wave oscillator expected to be a high power microwave source are studied analytically. The slow wave structure is a sinusodially corrugated wall waveguide. The waveguide is designed and transmitted characteristics for microwave are measured in the air. There exist literatures on high efficiency of enhansed radiation from backward wave oscillators involving plasmastudied experimentally another results.

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Heating Behavior of Silicon Carbide Fiber Mat under Microwave

  • Khishigbayar, Khos-Erdene;Seo, Jung-Min;Cho, Kwang-Youn
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.707-711
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    • 2016
  • A small diameter of SiC fiber mat can produce much higher heat under microwave irradiation than the other types of SiC materials. Fabrication of high strength SiC fiber consists of iodine vapor curing on polycarbosilane precursor and heat treatment process. The curing stage of polycarbosilane fiber was maintained at $150-200^{\circ}C$ in a vacuum condition under the iodine vapor to fabricate a high thermal radiation SiC fiber. The structure and morphology of the fibers were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In this study, the thermal properties of SiC fiber mats under microwave have been analyzed with an IR thermal camera and its image analyzer. The prepared SiC fiber mats radiated high temperature with extremely high heating rate up to $1100^{\circ}C$ in 30 seconds. The fabricated SiC fiber mats were not oxidized after the heat radiation process under the microwave irradiation.