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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2008 Nov 18;20(1):118–124. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2008.09.021

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Simplified example comparing a static-size model (left) to a more realistic model (right) that accounts for changes in ablation size to predict coverage of a 3 cm tumor using the overlapping ablation technique. The initial ablation size was equivalent in both models (1.8 cm diameter) but in the dynamic-size model the ablation diameter grew by 13, 25 and 25 percent, based on the results of the present study. The static-size model requires seven ablations to cover the tumor with a small margin whereas the model based on in vivo results requires only four.