Effect of thermal treatment on heating characteristics of Ni-Cu alloy for hyperthermia: preliminary studies
| Autor: | Stefan A. Loening, S. D. Ferguson, Robert D. Tucker, Joseph A. Paulus, Joon B. Park |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
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Hyperthermia
Materials science Hot Temperature Annealing (metallurgy) Alloy Metallurgy General Engineering Recrystallization (metallurgy) Prostatic Neoplasms General Medicine Thermal treatment Hyperthermia Induced engineering.material medicine.disease Ferromagnetism Nickel Materials Testing engineering medicine Curie Alloys Curie temperature Humans Copper |
| Zdroj: | Journal of applied biomaterials : an official journal of the Society for Biomaterials. 4(1) |
| ISSN: | 1045-4861 |
| Popis: | Ferromagnetic NiCu alloy wires were characterized in order to obtain well-defined thermoseeds for application in interstitial hyperthermia of prostate cancer. Thermoseeds have been produced which possess Curie points in the therapeutic hyperthermia range, approximately 40 to 50 °C. The effect of thermal treatment and composition on the heating characteristics of the thermoseeds were investigated. The preliminary study shows that the recrystallization is crucial for altering thermoseeds' heating characteristics. Obtaining thermoseeds which behave as desired depends on changes in annealing times and temperatures. One may increase the maximum heating temperature (similar to Curie temperature) by increasing the annealing time and cooling time. Decreasing the lower annealing plateau temperature also increases the maximum seed heating temperature. Higher nickel content compositions did not affect rise time but increased the maximum heating temperature. © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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