Dissertation Announcement for Mustafa Asili
06/01/16 at 1:00 PM
May 17, 2016
Dear Faculty, Graduate and Undergraduate Students,
You are cordially invited to my dissertation oral defense.
Dissertation Title: Microwave mild hyperthermia for chemo-thermotherapy of liver
When: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016, 01:00 PM
Where: Simrall 228
Candidate: Mustafa Asili
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Committee:
Dr. J. Patrick Donohoe
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Major Professor )
Dr. Erdem Topsakal
Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering (VCU) (Committee Member and Director of Dissertation)
Dr. Nicolas Younan
Professor and Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Committee Member)
Dr. John Ball
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Committee Member)
Abstract:
Increasing demands for hyperthermia (HT) as an adjuvant therapy is caused from the contributions of thermal therapy to the traditional treatments. Latest improvements in hyperthermia make it popular among thermal therapies to cure cancer in any organ or body parts. HT takes advantage of EM radiation inside the tumor that provides temperature and blood perfusion increment that helps radiation therapy and chemotherapy to be more efficient. Therefore, some advantages makes HT preferred when compared to similar treatments. Being noninvasive and painless with an efficient cooling system, and helping to shorten the application period and session number of conventional treatments are most important advantages of HT. However, existing HT systems require high input power per elements on the applicators and long application time. Designing conformal and patient specific applicators with mild application can solve this issue. Moreover, mild HT application can make cancer treatment cheaper and more accessible.
The main goal in this study is to design conformal HT applicators through optimization for liver and provide a patient specific and cost-effective local hyperthermia treatment that can be widely used in local clinical cancer treatment centers without expensive applicators.
Best regards,
Mustafa Asili