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Numerical Simulation of Temperature Variations during the Application of Safety Protocols in Magnetic Particle Hyperthermia

Journal

NANOMATERIALS
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano12030554

Keywords

magnetic particle hyperthermia; magnetic nanoparticles; eddy currents reduction; tissue sparing

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This study presents two simple methods to reduce the heating of healthy tissues while maintaining an adequate level of heating in cancer tissues during magnetic particle hyperthermia. The methods involve moving the induction coil relative to the tissue and applying the magnetic field intermittently in an ON/OFF pulsed mode.
Unavoidably, magnetic particle hyperthermia is limited by the unwanted heating of the neighboring healthy tissues, due to the generation of eddy currents. Eddy currents naturally occur, due to the applied alternating magnetic field, which is used to excite the nanoparticles in the tumor and, therefore, restrict treatment efficiency in clinical application. In this work, we present two simply applicable methods for reducing the heating of healthy tissues by simultaneously keeping the heating of cancer tissue, due to magnetic nanoparticles, at an adequate level. The first method involves moving the induction coil relative to the phantom tissue during the exposure. More specifically, the coil is moving symmetrically-left and right relative to the specimen-in a bidirectional fashion. In this case, the impact of the maximum distance (2-8 cm) between the coil and the phantom is investigated. In the second method, the magnetic field is applied intermittently (in an ON/OFF pulsed mode), instead of the continuous field mode usually employed. The parameters of the intermittent field mode, such as the time intervals (ON time and OFF time) and field amplitude, are optimized based on the numerical assessment of temperature increase in healthy tissue and cancer tissue phantoms. Different ON and OFF times were tested in the range of 25-100 s and 50-200 s, respectively, and under variable field amplitudes (45-70 mT). In all the protocols studied here, the main goal is to generate inside the cancer tissue phantom the maximum temperature increase, possible (preferably within the magnetic hyperthermia window of 4-8 degrees C), while restricting the temperature increase in the healthy tissue phantom to below 4 degrees C, signifying eddy current mitigation.

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