TY - GEN
T1 - Solutions for improving the outcomes of thermal treatments in oncology
T2 - 16th IEEE SENSORS Conference, ICSENS 2017
AU - Schena, Emiliano
AU - Massaroni, Carlo
AU - Saccomandi, Paola
AU - Marescaux, Jacques
AU - Diana, Michele
AU - Costamagna, Guido
AU - Tosi, Daniele
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank technicians team of IHU. This research was supported by IHU, under grant I-Thermo LAP.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/12/21
Y1 - 2017/12/21
N2 - Over the last few decades, minimally invasive treatments have gained large interest as alternative to surgical resection. Among others, thermal treatments have broad clinical acceptance for treating a number of solid tumors. In this context, the knowledge of temperature during the treatment may be useful to improve the clinical outcomes. The aim of this work is to assess the feasibility of two multipoint probes for temperature monitoring during laser ablation (LA). The probe consists of a medical needle which embeds an array of 7 fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. Experiments, performed in in vivo animal model (pig liver), show that the probe is able to reach deep organs and gives the possibility to monitor the tissue temperature in several points. This information may be crucial to guide the clinicians in the optimization of treatment settings, as well as to improve the accuracy of theoretical models that will guide future study to design new heating device and to develop patient-specific treatments.
AB - Over the last few decades, minimally invasive treatments have gained large interest as alternative to surgical resection. Among others, thermal treatments have broad clinical acceptance for treating a number of solid tumors. In this context, the knowledge of temperature during the treatment may be useful to improve the clinical outcomes. The aim of this work is to assess the feasibility of two multipoint probes for temperature monitoring during laser ablation (LA). The probe consists of a medical needle which embeds an array of 7 fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. Experiments, performed in in vivo animal model (pig liver), show that the probe is able to reach deep organs and gives the possibility to monitor the tissue temperature in several points. This information may be crucial to guide the clinicians in the optimization of treatment settings, as well as to improve the accuracy of theoretical models that will guide future study to design new heating device and to develop patient-specific treatments.
KW - Minimally invasive treatments
KW - fiber Bragg grating sensors
KW - fiber optic sensors
KW - laser ablation
KW - temperature monitoring
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234071
DO - 10.1109/ICSENS.2017.8234071
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044326410
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE Sensors
SP - 1
EP - 3
BT - IEEE SENSORS 2017 - Conference Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 30 October 2017 through 1 November 2017
ER -