A New Approach To High-Quality Patient-Specific Hyperthermia Treatment

Achieving good quality hyperthermia treatments places extremely high demands on both the applicator hardware and the treatment planning software and further requires an interface between the two modalities that guarantees precise steering and treatment delivery. We propose a paradigm that addresses all of these challenges with a flexible and light applicator, based on an innovative mask concept, placed on the patient and validated software optimized for patient-specific treatment, which together allow for high-fidelity and reproducible targeted tumor heating.