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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Biol Eng Comput. 2020 Apr 10;58(6):1325–1340. doi: 10.1007/s11517-020-02152-6

Table 4.

Summary of thermal simulation on Model II

Metric Inactive
γ=121°
No vaginal
cooling		 Inactive
γ=111°
No vaginal
cooling		 Inactive
γ=101°
No vaginal
cooling		 Inactive
γ=111°
35°C vaginal
cooling		 Inactive
γ=101°
35°C vaginal
cooling		 Inactive
γ=111°
25°C vaginal
cooling		 Inactive
γ=101°
25°C vaginal
cooling
Inactive β 59° 69° 79° 69° 79° 69° 79°
Urethral sparing 1.3 mm 1.3 mm 1.3 mm 1.4 mm 1.4 mm 1.4 mm 1.4 mm
Penetration 11.2 mm 11.1 mm 11.1 mm 10.9 mm 10.8 mm 10.4 mm 10.1 mm
deptha
Heated lengthb 12.5 mm 12.5 mm 12.5 mm 12.4 mm 12.3 mm 11.9 mm 11.8 mm
Heated volume 1.674 cm3 1.655 cm3 1.632 cm3 1.506 cm3 1.432 cm3 1.165 cm3 1.054 cm3
(>60 EM43°C) (−9.0%)c (−12.3%)c (−29.6%)c (−35.4%)c
Coagulated 0.940 cm3 0.928 cm3 0.914 cm3 0.836 cm3 0.790 cm3 0.603 cm3 0.531 cm3
volume (−10.0%)c (−13.6%)c (−35.0%)c (−41.9%)c
(>240 EM43°C)
Max T 57.3°C 57.3°C 57.3°C 57.0°C 56.9°C 56.0°C 55.7°C
Max Vagina T 46.8°C 47.9°C 48.8°C 45.7°C 46.2°C 41.5°C 41.8°C
Max Vagina 14.3 EM43°C 29.0 EM43°C 51.2 EM43°C 6.8 EM43°C 9.4 EM43°C 0.09 EM43°C 0.14 EM43°C
Dose
Max Bone T 44.8°C 44.5°C 44.1°C 44.5°C 44.1°C 44.4°C 44.0°C
Max Bone Dose 3.9 EM43°C 3.2 EM43°C 2.3 EM43°C 3.1 EM43°C 2.2 EM43°C 2.9 EM43°C 2.1 EM43°C
Coverage angles
(>60 EM43°C)		 71.7° 71.7° 71.4° 70.0° 69.3° 64.2° 62.6°
a

indicates the maximum penetration (>60 EM43°C) in radial direction

b

indicates the maximum length of heated zone (>60 EM43°C) along the applicator

c

denotes the heated volume reduction compared to the same applicator configurations without vaginal cooling