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SUMMARY:High-frequency microwave ablation for targeted\, minimally-invasiv
 e cancer therapy
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr Nader Behdad\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nMicro
 wave ablation (MWA) employs an interstitial antenna to deliver microwave e
 nergy directly into the tumor and heat it to cytotoxic temperatures. This 
 thermoablative approach to cancer treatment is a promising alternative to 
 surgical resection. MWA avoids the high costs\, invasiveness\, prolonged u
 se of general anesthesia and other risks\, and long recovery times associa
 ted with surgery. In comparison to other thermal ablation technologies suc
 h as radio-frequency ablation\, MWA achieves higher temperatures\, larger 
 ablation volumes\, and shorter ablation times.\nThe vast majority of prior
  MWA studies have made use of frequencies below 2.5 GHz\, in part due to c
 oncerns that smaller penetration depths of electromagnetic waves at higher
  frequencies would preclude the creation of sufficiently large ablation zo
 nes. However\, we have recently obtained experimental evidence to the cont
 rary. Namely\, we have shown in ex vivo bovine liver ablations that using 
 high-frequency (HF) microwaves (e.g. 10 GHz) results in zones of ablated t
 issue that are comparable in size to those achieved with the low-frequency
  (LF) microwaves employed in conventional MWA systems.\nIn this talk\, I w
 ill present the results of our recent investigation in the area of HF MWA 
 and discuss the potential clinical benefits of using HF microwaves for abl
 ation. I will also present a new type of interstitial antenna that we have
  recently developed\, which can considerably reduce the invasiveness of mi
 crowave ablation as a potential treatment for cancer.\nIn Memoriam Prof. D
 r Julien Perruisseau-Carrier\nBio: Nader Behdad received the B.S. degree i
 n Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran\, Ir
 an) in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from 
 University of Michigan (Ann Arbor\, MI\, U.S.A.) in 2003 and 2006 respecti
 vely. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Compute
 r Engineering department of the University of Wisconsin (Madison\, WI\, U.
 S.A.) From 2009-2013 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of El
 ectrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Wisconsin and from 
 2006 to 2008\, he was as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Elect
 rical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Central Florid
 a (Orlando\, FL\, U.S.A.). Dr. Behdad's research expertise is in the area 
 of applied electromagnetics. In particular\, his research interests includ
 e electrically-small antennas\, antenna arrays\, antennas for biomedical a
 pplications\, biomedical applications of RF/microwaves\, periodic structur
 es\, frequency selective surfaces\, passive high-power microwave devices\,
  metamaterials\, and biomimetics and biologically inspired systems in elec
 tromagnetics.\nDr. Behdad is the recipient of the 2014 R. W. P. King Prize
  Paper Award and the 2012 Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper A
 ward of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He is also the recipien
 t of the 2011 CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation\, the
  2011 Young Investigator Award from the United States Air Force Office of 
 Scientific Research\, and the 2011 Young Investigator Award from the Unite
 d States Office of Naval Research. He received the Office of Naval Researc
 h Senior Faculty Fellowship in 2009\, the Young Scientist Award from the I
 nternational Union of Radio Science (URSI) in 2008\, the Horace H. Rackham
  Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 2005-2006\, the
  best paper awards in the Antenna Applications Symposium in Sep. 2003\, an
 d the second prize in the paper competition of the USNC/ URSI National Rad
 io Science Meeting\, Boulder\, CO\, in January 2004. His graduate students
  were the recipients of the ten different awards/recognitions at the IEEE 
 Pulsed Power & Plasma Science (2013)\, IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium (2010\, 20
 12\, 2013\, 2014)\, and the Antenna Applications Symposium (2008\, 2010\, 
 2011). Dr. Behdad is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Ant
 ennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and served as the co-chair of the t
 echnical program committee of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Ant
 ennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting.
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