Erol Yeniaras1,
David T. A. Fuentes2, Samuel J. Fahrenholtz1, Jeffrey
S. Weinberg3, Florian Maier1, Anil Shetty4,
John D. Hazle1, R. Jason Stafford1
1Imaging
Physics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; 2Imaging
Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX,
United States; 3Neurosurgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston,
TX, United States; 4Visualase, Inc, Houston, TX, United States
In this work we introduce a new computational methodology and for minimally-invasive MR-guided laser-induced thermal therapy for brain tumors. We also evaluate the viability of the steady-state method on real human data retrospectively.