TY  - JOUR
AU  - Austerlitz, C. 
AU  - Gkigkitzis, I. 
AU  - Campos, D. 
AU  - Haranas, I. 
PY  - 2014
TI  - AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE HEAT ENHANCEMENT AND THE BIO-HEAT TRANSFER USING GOLD MACRO ROD AND ULTRASOUND: A POTENTIAL ALTERNATIVE TO KILL CANCER CELLS
JF  - Physics International
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
DO  - 10.3844/pisp.2014.132.135
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/pisp.2014.132.135
AB  - We have previously proposed a method of treating solid tumors with a combination of gold macro-rods irradiated with ultrasound. Macro particle sized rods offer a greater circumferential treatment area over nanoparticle options. Experimental studies were conducted to investigate the heat enhancement and the bio-heat transfer to breast chicken using gold macro rod and ultrasound. An ultrasound, other than a focused ultrasound,  may produce heat enough to cook a chicken breast up to  about 1 cm diameter if  a single gold rod is placed on the superficial tissue. Simulations and experimental results will provide the means to evaluate the treatment, to better design a patient-specific therapy to achieve maximum destruction of tumor and injury minimization of healthy tissue by controlling size, shape and location of gold seeds and ultrasound parameters.