Magnetic Nanoparticle-Guided Blind-Focusing in Microwave Hyperthermia: Numerical Assessment in the Case of Neck Tumors

This paper concerns with a recently proposed approach of blind focused microwave hyperthermia, exploiting magnetic nanoparticles as contrast agents, and aims at numerically assessing the approach in the clinically relevant case of the treatment of neck tumors. To this respect, a realistic scheme, inspired by the prototypal system called Hypercollar, has been adopted. The well-known Zubal phantom has been exploited as human model. The numerical results show that the proposed approach works well also in a realistic and complex situations like the one considered in this study.